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Cinema-by-Sea
Cover
Background photograph of Hove beach by David Fisher;
stills from Grandma’s Reading Glass (George Albert
Smith, 1900), Fire! (James Williamson, 1901), Curzon
Kinema, Brighton (1936), Brighton Rock (John Boulting,
1947) and Jigsaw (Val Guest, 1962)
Frontispiece
A queue (of extras) in the rain outside the Rothbury
Cinema, Portslade from Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
This page
Arrival and Departure of a Train at Hove (George Albert
Smith, 1897)
Cinema-by-Sea
Film and cinema in
Brighton & Hove
since 1896
David Fisher
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Cinema-by-Sea
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David Fisher was
editor of the international media journal
Screen Digest from
1974 until 2011. He
also edited and
designed around 100
other publications for Screen Digest. He was
Executive Editor of Television—Journal of the
Royal Television Society from 1978 to 1982.
He was a co-opted member of the Interim
Action Committee on the British Film
Industry and its successor, the British Screen
Advisory Council, from 1982 to 1989. Among
numerous other positions, he served as a
representative on the advisory committee of
the European Audiovisual Observatory in
Strasbourg between 1992 and 2007 and was an
associate fellow of the University of Warwick
1994-2003, where he taught part of a postgraduate course in European Cultural Policy.
An award-winning film school graduate,
his previous publications include The Craft of
Film (Attic Publishing, 1970), Education and
Training for Film and Television (co-editor,
BKSTS, two editions: 1973, 1977), Video Disc
77 (Nord Media, 1977), Cinema Production
and Distribution in Europe (Council of
Europe, 1996) with André Lange, and New
Information Technology and the Young
(Council of Europe, 2000). He lives in
Brighton and is working on several local
history projects.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication
A catalogue record for this publication is
available from the British Library.
ISBN 978-0-9574449-0-4
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Cinema-by-Sea
Contents
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9
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147
Part 7 People
Biographies of people associated with film and
cinema in Brighton & Hove
Part 2 Chronology
The events in date order
Part 4 Films: the silent era
75 Introduction
87 The listing
All the films made in Brighton, Hove and
Shoreham from 1896 to 1929
136
137
139
140
Part 6 Colour
The invention of colour cinematography in
Southwick and the rivalry that killed it
Part 1 The story so far
Setting the wider context for film and cinema in
Brighton & Hove
Part 3 Cinemas and cinema-going
27 Introduction
From the first film shows to the age of the
multiplex
43 The listing
All the places where films have been shown in
Brighton, Hove and district
113
117
141
Introduction
Part 5 Films: the sound era
Introduction
The listing
All films made in Brighton, Hove and Shoreham
since 1929
Music films (feature length)
Films set in Brighton (but not filmed there)
Short films
Newsreels
Cinema-by-Sea
187 Part 8 Companies
Selected businesses associated with film and
cinema in Brighton, Hove and district
191 Part 9 Places
A gazetteer of some of the key places associated
with film, cinema, film-makers and actors in
Brighton, Hove and district
Part 10 Studios
The film studios of Hove, Shoreham and
Brighton
206
The lost studios of Whitehawk
201
209
Part 11 Resources
Bibliography, websites, museums, archives and
libraries, film and video, education
213 Index
Hove Fire Brigade hurtles along
Cromwell Road in Fire!
(James Williamson, 1901)
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Introduction
Introduction
You probably know what it’s like when you are
watching a film or television programme and
unexpectedly see a local scene that you
recognise. There’s that frisson of identifying
your own reality. Well, perhaps not if you live
in Buckingham Palace or 10 Downing Street.
But there is a fascination with seeing the
familiar: your town, your neighbourhood,
your street.
If that can still happen, imagine what it
must have been like for the citizens of
Brighton & Hove in 1896 who paid their
sixpences or shillings to see ‘the sensation of
the century’ at the Victoria Hall opposite the
West Pier. Among the moving pictures, the
‘animated photographs’, they saw was the
scene on the beach across the road. Long
before audiences were shown the sights of the
California coast, for many around the world
their first sight of the sea was not the surf at
Malibu but the shingle at Brighton.
Brighton & Hove immediately became one
of the principal centres of film-making
activity, not just for the UK but for the world,
alongside Paris, New York and London. By the
end of the century and for much of the
following decade local film-makers made
Brighton & Hove (mainly Hove) as important
as anywhere in the world with their groundbreaking, sophisticated understanding of
production and editing techniques.
In the first years of the twentieth century
Britain developed a thriving export market,
especially to the United States. Indeed, it
might have continued longer but for the
efforts of Thomas Edison and his patentwielding associates to undermine sales of
European films to American cinemas.
It had to start somewhere
Film-making began in Brighton and Hove in
July 1896 when ROBERT W PAUL shot a film on
Brighton beach to include in his ‘celebrated
animatographe’ programme that began a run
at the VICTORIA HALL on King’s Road on 6 July.
He was followed by his colleague Birt Acres in
August. The first Brighton film-maker was the
photographer ESMÉ COLLINGS. He seems to
have lost interest in moving pictures very
quickly as his film-making barely overlaps
with that of two great names in early cinema,
Cinema-by-Sea
GEORGE ALBERT SMITH and JAMES WILLIAMSON,
whose film careers began in Hove in 1897 and
continued for a number of years. Both were
running businesses in Hove, both built studios
there and both are now regarded as having
made a major contribution to the early
development of the film medium.
By the end of 1900 at least 184 films had
been made in Brighton and Hove, plus a
number more shot elsewhere by local filmmakers. Mostly these were single-shot films
lasting no more than a minute. Any moving
picture could excite an audience at that stage.
By the end of 1904 the total had risen to just
short of 300 (these totals being based on the
listings in this book).
Although some single-shot actuality films
were still being issued, the sophistication of
production advanced rapidly during this
period. Editing techniques were added to the
developing repertoire of trick shots, such as
superimposition, double-exposure and
running film in reverse. Work being done in
Hove at this time had an influence on other
film-makers, notably in the United States.
Belated recognition
Early cinema history is still being unearthed
and what was once presented as fact has now
been superseded by more recently discovered
information. In my first term as a film student
45 years ago I was lucky enough to spend
many hours, several days a week, sitting in a
darkened theatre learning about the history of
cinema from the doyen of film historians,
Roger Manvell. We saw films by the great
French cinema magician Georges Méliès and
the American pioneer of narrative film Edwin
S Porter. We did not see films by the English
cinema magician George Albert Smith nor the
British pioneer of narrative film-making James
Williamson. They had yet to be assigned their
rightful place in the story of cinema.
The full significance of Brighton’s
achievement, of what Smith and Williamson
achieved through intuition, analysis or trialand-error, was barely recognised at the time
they were working, nor acknowledged for
many years after.
It was not until 1945 that the city was put
on the media history map in an essay by
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Introduction
8
GEORGES SADOUL, who coined the phrase
‘l’école de Brighton’ (the Brighton school) to
describe the work of Collings, Smith, Williamson and ALFRED DARLING. The study and
writing of film history and theory was only
just getting into its stride in the mid-1940s,
especially in France.
Sadoul may have unknowingly trampled
on the sensitivities of the good people of
Hove—which is, after all, where most of the
work was done—but eventually this proved to
be a transformative publication. In 1968 an
exhibition organised by the British Film
Institute (BFI) about the Hove film pioneers
was held during the Brighton Festival.
The real breakthrough came in 1978 when
the International Federation of Film Archives
(FIAF) held its 34th Congress, appropriately
enough, in Brighton. This established the
scope and agenda for the future study of early
cinema that has continued ever since. An
unprecedented collection of 548 films from
the earliest days of the cinema around the
world was screened before the conference at
the BRIGHTON FILM THEATRE in North Street.
Since then the academic study of early
cinema has flourished. More and more of the
old films have been issued on DVD or posted
online and some early ones still turn up
unexpectedly. Even while this book was being
prepared, two important discoveries were
made in the archives: G A Smith’s film The
Death of Poor Joe and Edward Turner’s colour
test film from 1902.
This is a book about film and cinema in
Brighton and Hove. It is not intended to
provide a history of cinema and film-making
in general. For that the reader is referred to
the many general histories, some of which are
listed in the Resources section at the end of
the book. So the book does not go into detail
about events when what began as local filmmaking moved away from Brighton—as, for
example, the production of Kinemacolor films
under licence in America and France.
The intention is to tell the story for the
general reader, although it is hoped that by
assembling so many facts in one place it will
also be of use to social and cultural historians.
The function of this book, therefore, is to
chart the history of Brighton & Hove’s
chequered involvement with the movies. It
describes how an industry grew out of those
first picture shows of 1896 in five main
components:
z the narrative history of film and cinema in
Brighton & Hove—including Southwick and
Shoreham,
z the cinemas and other places where films
have been shown,
z the films made wholly or partly in Brighton
& Hove from the first single-shot silent films
to the most recent digital video productions,
z the people involved (excluding those who
are still living),
z the places where films were made and
people lived, with a separate section for the
film production studios.
Although that first phase of activity is now
well recognised by film historians, the
following period, which could be characterised as the first colour film era, is less well
known and still in need of further research.
The first successful colour test films were shot
by George Albert Smith at Southwick in 1906,
the year in which he patented the system that
was later dubbed Kinemacolor. By the end of
1910 a total of 61 colour films had been shot,
around 35 of them in the Brighton area. In
1910 Charles Urban’s Natural Colour
Kinematograph Company took over James
Williamson’s ‘film factory’ in Cambridge
Grove, Hove as a precursor to the astonishing
output of more than 200 Kinemacolor films
that were released by 1912. Many of these
were shot in Hove.
So the story has to be told of not just the
rise and fall of colour film technology but also
the all-too-rapid decline of Brighton and
Hove’s place in film-making. And, of course,
the occasions since then when it has been put
back onto the big screen.
Extensive efforts have been made to check and
double-check information. Nonetheless, it is
likely that some information presented here
may prove inaccurate. If unidentified errors
have been incorporated from incorrect
sources, they are repeated here for the sake of
completeness and in the hope that future work
will correct them. For, of course, if they are
not errors, they ought to be here. On the other
hand, new errors may have been introduced
and in the end any author must accept responsibility for everything. So I do. Corrections
and comments would be most welcome and
will be included on the brightonfilm.com
website.
By the way, Brighton is sometimes used to
stand for the area of Brighton and Hove (and
Shoreham and Southwick). This is done purely
for convenience. The significance of each part
of the city and its neighbours should be
revealed in the following pages.
David Fisher
Brighton, November 2012
Cinema-by-Sea
Cinema-by-Sea | Part 1
The story so far
The bigger picture of film and cinema and the place of Brighton and Hove in the story
It is almost impossible to imagine, in our
world of round-the-clock multi-channel
television, the impact that the first flickering
shadows of films had on the public of late
Victorian England. In a teeming age of
discovery and invention, the advertisements
that proclaimed ‘living pictures’ to be the
sensation of the age were not exaggerating.
Various attempts were made from the
early 1870s onwards to
1
capture photographic images
of movement, principally by
Etienne-Jules Marey and
Léon Bouly in France and by
two Englishmen, Eadweard
Muybridge and Wordsworth
Donnisthorpe, the former
working in the United States.
However, the first successful
attempt at creating what we would now
recognise as a ‘film’ is generally agreed to be a
fragment recorded in October 1888 by a
Frenchman, Louis Le Prince, in the garden of
his father-in-law’s home in Leeds. Another
Englishman, WILLIAM FRIESE GREENE, working
in London (but with past and future links to
Brighton), took out a patent in 1889 for an
‘improved apparatus for taking photographs in
rapid series’.
William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, a Scot
working at the Edison laboratories in New
Jersey, established in 1892 the principle of
35mm film with perforations in either side of
the series of
2
images, fed
vertically through
a camera—essentially the standard
that has persisted
ever since. This
became the
Kinetoscope,
which Dickson
called ‘the crown
and flower of
nineteenth
century magic’.
This peep-show device, of the kind later
known, somewhat disparagingly, as a ‘whatthe-butler-saw’ machine, proved very popular.
The first Kinetoscope parlour opened for
business in New York on 14 April 1894 and
the first outside the US in Oxford Street,
London on 17 October. A machine was installed at the Brighton AQUARIUM in 1895. The
trouble with the Kinetoscope was that only
one person at a time could see the pictures.
The first film shows
The real breakthrough was projection onto a
screen. The first projected
images were seen during
1895, beginning in Paris
with Auguste and Louis
Lumière’s Cinématographe
on 22 March. The early
demonstrations were
precisely that: showing trade
and professional bodies that
the technology worked. At
the very end of the year the Lumière brothers
gave the first public exhibition of films on 28
December 1895 in the Salon Indien at the
Grand Café, 14 boulevard des Capucines,
Paris. An audience of 33 people, including the
magician and future film-maker Georges
Méliès, paid one franc each for admission.
In January 1896 the first private
demonstrations were held in London, and on
21 February the first UK commercial film
screenings of the Lumière Cinématographe
began at the Regent Street Polytechnic in
London. The admission charge was one
shilling (5p). Among those who saw the films
during their three-week run was an optical
3
1 The oldest
surviving film: Louis
Le Prince’s Roundhay
Garden Scene of
October 1888
2 Edison’s
Kinetoscope
3 A Lumière
Cinématographe
4 The poster for the
Lumière Cinématographe shows a scene
from one of their
first films, L’arroseur
arrosé (The Waterer
Watered)
4
9
History The story so far
1
Other film shows in Brighton, using
variously named projectors, were to follow
during the remainder of 1896. The
Cinographoscope at the IMPERIAL HOTEL in
Queen’s Road at the end of September. Chard’s
Vitagraph at the Empire Theatre of Varieties
(later the COURT CINEMA) in New Road from
mid-October. The Hove Camera Club‘s annual
exhibition at Hove Town Hall in November
had some animated photographs organised by
JAMES WILLIAMSON, a chemist with a shop in
Church Road, Hove, where he developed and
printed photographs for his customers. And
finally, at Christmas R W Paul’s Theatrograph
(another name for the Animatographe)
featured in the Christmas pantomime at the
THEATRE ROYAL.
The programme included local scenes shot
by ESMÉ COLLINGS, who was also involved in
putting on the shows.
2
1 R W Paul’s film of
Brighton Beach, July
1896—the first film
shot in Brighton
2 Robert W Paul
lanternist and showman from Hove, GEORGE
ALBERT SMITH. On 9 March the Cinématographe shows moved to the Empire Theatre
of Varieties in Leicester Square.
Meanwhile, ROBERT W PAUL, an English
electrical engineer had been involved in
moving pictures since making a copy in 1894
of Edison’s Kinetoscope, which had not been
patented in the UK. Paul developed the
technology to include projection on a screen
and started to make his own films in February
1895, working with a photographer, Birt
Acres, who consequently made the first film
shot in Britain (other than a test strip), outside
his home in Barnet, north London. Paul’s films
were shown to the public for the first time at
the Finsbury Technical College in 21 February
1896, on the day the Cinématographe opened
in Regent Street. On 19 March he began
screenings using his Theatrograph projector at
the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly and two days
later at the Olympia exhibition halls. That led
to a two-week engagement at the Alhambra
music hall in Leicester Square, which
eventually extended to four years.
Films arrive in Brighton
Until now all film shows in England had been
in London. On the same day that R W Paul’s
shows began at the Alhambra, 25 March 1896,
the first show outside the capital was held at
the PANDORA GALLERY, at 132 King’s Road,
Brighton, opposite the West Pier.
By the beginning of July the Pandora
Gallery had become the VICTORIA HALL. On 6
July 1896 R W Paul’s ‘Celebrated Animatographe’ began a run of shows there that was so
popular with residents and visitors that it
continued well into the autumn.
10
The story of cinemas and cinema-going in
Brighton, Hove and Shoreham begins on
page 27.
Local film-making begins
A number of places can claim to have
witnessed pioneering efforts in the making of
films: West Orange NJ, New York, Lyon, Paris,
Blackburn, Berlin, Walton-on-Thames and
Holmfirth (of Last of the Summer Wine fame)
among them. But few can claim an equal role
to Brighton and Hove in advancing mere film
towards its status as ‘cinema’. Yet this
achievement was barely recognised at the
time, nor for many years after.
It was not until 1945 that the city was put
on the media history map in an essay by the
French film historian GEORGES SADOUL, who
coined the phrase ‘l’école de Brighton’ (the
Brighton school) to describe the work of ESMÉ
COLLINGS, GEORGE ALBERT SMITH, JAMES
WILLIAMSON and ALFRED DARLING.
In adopting that name Sadoul may have
unknowingly trampled on the sensitivities of
the good people of Hove—which is, after all,
where most of the work was done—but this
proved to be a transformative publication. The
study and writing of film history and theory
was only just getting into its stride in the mid1940s, especially in France. Even the doyen of
British film historians, Roger Manvell, had yet
to catch up with the early events on his own
doorstep. In 1968 an exhibition organised by
the British Film Institute about the Hove film
pioneers was held during the Brighton
Festival.
But the watershed came in 1978 when the
International Federation of Film Archives
Part 1 | Cinema-by-Sea
Chronology
A year-by-year account of film and cinema in Brighton & Hove
1854
1856
1859
1860
1861
1862
1864
1867
1869
1870
1874
1876
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
July 23 BIRT ACRES is born in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
May 2 Emma Solomon (the future VIOLET MELNOTTEWYATT) is born in Birmingham.
September 7 WILLIAM Green (later FRIESE GREENE) is
born in Bristol.
November 8 JAMES A WILLIAMSON is born at Pathhead,
Kirkaldy, Scotland.
z Arthur Albert (ESMÉ) COLLINGS is born in Westonsuper-Mare.
z Elizabeth Alice Frances Hawkins-Whitshed (the
future MRS AUBREY LE BLOND) is born.
z ALFRED DARLING is born in Lambeth, London.
February 4 LAURA BAYLEY is born in Ramsgate, Kent.
January 4 GEORGE ALBERT SMITH is born in London.
April 15 CHARLES URBAN is born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
USA.
October 3 ROBERT W PAUL is born in Holloway, London.
February 5 JOHN BENETT-STANFORD is born at West
Tisbury, Gloucestershire.
z WILLIAM NORMAN LASCELLES DAVIDSON is born in
Kensington, London.
August 2 SIDNEY MORGAN is born in Bermondsey,
London.
July 18 Pioneering English animator ANSON DYER
(1876-1962) is born in Brighton, probably at 55 William
Street.
z The first UK long-distance telephone trunk line is
installed between London and Brighton.
z JAMES WILLIAMSON (1855-1933) moves his pharmacy/
photographic business from Ramsgate to 144 Church
Road, Hove (later renumbered as 156), taking over the
premises from a photographer called S Grey, formerly
in partnership as Wells & Grey. [The premises at 156
Church Road were still a chemist's shop in 1948 and,
coincidentally, the new 144 was occupied by a
photographer.]
z WILLIAM FRIESE GREENE (1855-1921) and ARTHUR
ALBERT (ESMÉ) COLLINGS (1859-1936) establish a joint
photographic business with a studio at 69 Western
Road, Hove. Friese Greene is a successful photographer
with, at various overlapping times, three studios in
London, two in Bath, and studios in Bristol (Clifton)
and Plymouth.
May 1 The partnership between WILLIAM FRIESE
GREENE, ESMÉ COLLINGS and James Whyte Collings is
dissolved. Esmé Collings keeps the photographic
business at 69 Western Road, Hove (re-numbered 120
in 1893), where he remains until the First World War.
December 28 STANLEY MUMFORD is born in London.
z WILLIAM FRIESE GREENE builds a ‘chronophotographic
camera' with which he takes ‘animated photographs'. He
lives and mainly works in London at this time.
June 21 FRIESE GREENE applies for an English patent (no
10131).
May 10 WILLIAM FRIESE GREENE’s patent for ‘improved
apparatus for taking photographs in rapid series’ is
granted.
1891
1894
1895
1896
z WILLIAM FRIESE GREENE is declared bankrupt, his
photographic business having suffered because of the
time he has been devoting to his experiments in
cinematography and other inventions.
z GEORGE ALBERT SMITH (1864-1959) takes a lease on St
Ann's Well Gardens, between Furze Road and
Somerhill Road, Hove, from the Goldsmid family.
Smith develops the pleasure gardens to include such
novelties as a fortune teller and a hermit living in a
cave.
z ALFRED DARLING begins an engineering business from
his home at 47 Chester Terrace, Brighton.
November 21 Thomas Henry Sargent (MAX MILLER) is
born in Brighton
z An Edison Kinetoscope is installed at Brighton
AQUARIUM.
November 8 X-rays are discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen.
December 28 The Lumière Brothers give the first
public demonstration of their films in Paris.
January 12 The first X-ray photograph is taken.
January 14 BIRT ACRES gives a demonstration of
equipment and films with his ‘kinetic lantern’ to the
Royal Photographic Society in London.
February 20 R W PAUL screens films to an invited
audience at Finsbury Technical College, London.
February 20 A press preview of the Lumière cinématographe is held at the Regent Street Polytechnic, London,
prior to the first UK commercial film screenings of the
Lumière Cinématographe that begin the next day and
continue for three weeks.
March 7 Regular screenings of the Lumière Cinématographe begin at the Empire Theatre of Varieties,
Leicester Square, London. G A SMITH is among those
who see the programme here.
March 16 G A SMITH presents the first of three
dioramic lectures at the Aquarium, using optical lantern
illustrations to create 'brilliant dissolving views and
beautiful mechanical and dioramic effects'. During the
year, at the Aquarium and on Hastings Pier, he
continues to stage occasional week-long runs of these
shows.
March 25 R W PAUL begins a two-week season of film
screenings with his Animatographe at the Alhambra
Theatre, Leicester Square that is extended to four years.
March 25 The first film show in Brighton (and first in
the UK outside London) is given at the PANDORA
GALLERY, opposite the West Pier, using a 'cinematographe'. (Sussex Daily News, 26 March 1896). The
Melrose Restaurant occpies the site.
July 6 A film show of R W PAUL's 'Celebrated
Animatographe' is given at the Victoria Hall, (132)
King's Road, Brighton—formerly the Pandora Gallery—
beginning an extended run. Programmes run throughout the day from 11.30 am to 10.30 pm. Admission is
6d (2½p), reserved seats 1s (5p). R W Paul himself
shoots a film during July of a small boat landing on
Brighton beach, 'with comic incidents'.
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Chronology 1909-1911
1910
March 1 The regular Kinemacolor programme is
introduced at the Palace Theatre, where it runs for 18
months.
March Natural Colour Kinematograph Company is
established by CHARLES URBAN. G A SMITH sells his
interest in Kinemacolor for £5,000 (equivalent to
around £475,000 in current values) to Ada Jones, who
soon marries Urban. Smith makes numerous films in
Kinemacolor but he and Urban fall out within a couple
of years.
July 6 A royal party visits the Kinemacolor show at the
Palace Theatre.
z DAVE AYLOTT makes 10 films for Williamson.
z JAMES WILLIAMSON directs his last film: a pioneering
natural history study of butterflies.
September JAMES WILLIAMSON ends film production.
November 25 Cinematograph Act, the first UK
legislation specifically concerned with film, resulting
from concern over fires caused by the highly
combustible nitrate film stocks, requires cinemas to be
licensed by local authorities.
November 30 G A SMITH is granted a US patent for
colour kinematography (no 941,960), for which he had
applied in June 1907. It is probably about now that
Kinemacolor opens a studio at 4500 Sunset Boulevard
in Hollywood.
December 11 G A SMITH and CHARLES URBAN present
the first American screening of Kinemacolor films at
Madison Square Garden in New York.
December 15 James Williamson gives a lecture to an
invited audience at Brighton Aquarium on ‘The Kinematograph as an Educative Medium’ with illustrations
of natural history films and other documentaries, including How They Made a Man of Billy Brown (1908).
z Six permanent cinemas open in the Brighton area,
one a purpose-built building, the others in converted
buildings.
January Charles Urban resigns from the Charles Urban
Trading Company to concentrate on developing the
products and market for Kinemacolor.
February 1 Tom Barrasford, proprietor of the
HIPPODROME dies at Hippodrome House in Middle
Street, Brighton.
February 28 STAR CINEMA opens in a former Congregational Chapel in Shoreham.
spring CINEMA-DE-LUXE is opened by Electric Theatres
(1908) Ltd in the former printing works of the Brighton
Gazette at 150 North Street, Brighton.
June The Kinemacolor Company of America is formed.
August The Electric Bioscope in Western Road expands
into the next-door shop and is fitted out with dimmable
auditorium lights, curtains revealing the screen and an
orchestra. The name changes to QUEEN'S ELECTRIC
THEATRE.
z JAMES WILLIAMSON withdraws from film production
and moves his company to London. His premises in
Cambridge Grove are acquired by CHARLES URBAN's
Kinemacolor company, the Natural Colour Kinematograph Company, which also has a studio in the south of
France. The rear of the Brighton premises, backing onto
the railway line just to the west of the junction of the
lines from Hove to Brighton and London, still shows
the word Kinemacolor in large white letters.
July The GEM ELECTRIC CINEMA 'penny gaff ' is opened
by Mr J W Thompson in a shopfront site at 36a London
Road, Brighton, seating 60 on wooden benches.
1911
Admission costs 2d or 3d for adults, 1d or 2d for
children.
z The first Kinemacolor drama production to be
released is The Story of Napoleon.
September 22 The first purpose-built cinema to open
in Brighton is the DUKE OF YORK'S CINEMA at Preston
Circus, which soon follows the renamed QUEEN'S
ELECTRIC THEATRE (see 1909) This is still operating
under the same name as an independent art-house
cinema. It is marked by a plaque.
October 13 Natural Colour Kinematograph Company
(NCKC) advertises in Kinematograph and Lantern
Weekly that 'Full Advantage has been taken of the
Recent Phenomenal Weather Conditions and a large
number of Comic, Dramatic, Historic and General
Natural Color Motion Picture Subjects have been
secured at Brighton under the production of Mr Theo
Bouwmeester'. More usually known as THEO FRENKEL
(Bouwmeester is his maternal grandfather's family
name), this Dutch actor and film-maker in fact makes
around 100 films for NCKC. Not all are made at the
Cambridge Grove facility.
December 10 EMPIRE PICTURE THEATRE, opened by
HARRY SCRIVEN in Haddington Street, is the first cinema
in Hove.
z People's Picture Palace cinema, soon renamed the
ARCADIA CINEMA, is opened by F R Griffiths in the
former Arcadia Theatre of Varieties at the junction of
Lewes Road and Park Crescent Place, Brighton.
z No fewer than nine cinemas open in Brighton &
Hove and district during the year, including two that
are purpose-built and two that will continue in
operation for more than 60 years.
February 22 CHARLES URBAN leases E DISTIN MADDICK’s
Scala Theatre in London for a year to showcase
Kinemacolor.
March 15 PRINCE'S IMPERIAL PICTURE PALACE AND
THEATRE is opened by H Gutteridge at North Street,
Portslade.
April 11 ELECTRIC EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE opens at 7677 George Street, the first purpose-built cinema in
Hove.
June 6 ACADEMY CINEMA opens at 59 West Street,
Brighton [below]. The opening programme includes
Kinemacolor films, with a talk by G A SMITH.
June 22 The Coronation of George V is filmed in
Kinemacolor.
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Cinema-going
How and where films have 1been screened in Brighton and Hove
Within a single century cinema went from
being the sensation of the late Victorian age to
become the most popular and potent form of
mass entertainment and then to being the
functional place for an occasional night out.
Exactly 50 years after the very first films
shows, cinema-going in Britain rose to a
phenomenal peak of 1.64 billion admissions in
1946. It then slid back to almost zero (54
million) over the next 40 years but has crept
back up again since the mid 1980s.
The first film shows were ad hoc affairs,
held wherever a projector and screen could be
set up. Audiences flocked to see the
programmes of one-minute films of a train
arriving at a station, or simple street scenes, or
a procession going by, or children playing on
the beach at Brighton.
Films arrive in Brighton
On 25 March 1896, on the very day ROBERT W
PAUL began his pioneering film shows at the
Alhambra in Leicester Square, London, the
first show outside the capital was held at the
PANDORA GALLERY, at 132 King’s Road,
Brighton, opposite the West Pier. It had been
due to open a day earlier but was ‘unavoidably
postponed’. These early film shows were
sometimes prone to technical
difficulties. Shows were held daily from
11:30 am.
There is no certainty which
projector was used and which films
were shown, nor indeed who ran the shows.
At first the advertisements referred to ‘the
Cinématograph’, which changed, confusingly,
to ‘the Cinématographe or Vitascope’ in the
advert that appeared in the Sussex Daily News
on 4 April. But for the mention of the
‘Vitascope’, this would appear to confirm that
a Lumière machine was used. The Vitascope
was the name of the projector designed by
Thomas Armat and built by the Edison
company in the USA. It was shown to the
press on 4 April 1896 and put into commercial
service on 23 April. So clearly the display in
Brighton could not have used that projector.
The proliferation of names for film
systems arose at least in part from protecting
(or circumventing) patents, but the press—and
probably exhibitors as well—used names
1
indiscriminately. The name ‘Vitascope’ may
just have appeared in the trade press for the
first time when the advertising copy changed,
but whether it came about in that way is far
from clear.
It is interesting to note that in the
replacement ad, the moving pictures take
second place to X-rays, which were also news.
Wilhelm Röntgen had announced his
discovery of X-rays at the turn of the year and
it may have been this exhibition that prompted
JAMES WILLIAMSON to acquire an X-ray
machine for his pharmacy practice in Hove.
The subject was raised in the review of the
show that appeared in the Sussex Daily News
on 26 March:
2
1 Advertisement
from the Sussex
Daily News of 24
March, announcing a
delay
2 Advertisement
from the Sussex
Daily News of 4
April 1896 when Xrays are included in
the programme
There is something almost awesome in the
development of the art of photography during
the past twelve months. Scarcely a day passes
but there is a record of some cure of long
suffering by the “new photography”,
enabling medical men to locate the seat of
mischief. In comparison with Professor
Rontgen’s startling and far-reaching discovery,
the latest development of instantaneous
photography, the Cinematographe, can only
occupy a position of secondary importance,
though its results are scarcely less astonishing
and distinctly more entertaining to the general
public. Considering the present scarcity of
these machines, Brighton is to be
congratulated upon counting the Cinematographe as one of its attractions. The Pandora
Gallery, opposite the West Pier, was opened
yesterday for the exhibition of this marvellous
invention, for the Cinematographe, which is
really an improvement on the kinetoscope,
enlarges and projects upon the screen what is,
to all appearance, a moving photograph, but,
in reality, a series of “snap-shots” of the same
scene passing before the eye at the incredible
speed of 900 per minute. The succession of
images follow one on the other at such
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Cinema-going The first shows
1
2
1 This seafront
photograph from
1896 happens to
show a sign towards
the right of the
picture saying
‘Animatographe’. The
white bow-fronted
building that was the
Pandora Gallery
before becoming the
Victoria Hall, still
stands and is now the
Melrose Restaurant
2 Advertisement in
the Brighton Gazette
and Sussex
Telegraph for 10
September 1896
infinitesimal intervals that the effect conveyed
to the retina is perfect in its illusion of
continuous vitality. The subjects of the
pictures, which will be changed weekly, are
principally dances, but it is hoped shortly to
shew the King’s-road, the cycle promenade,
and other local incidents that will doubtless
attract the crowded audience they deserve.
For the Easter holidays the Pandora added
new scenes and used an ironic verbal
formulation to promote the ‘enormous success
of “Trilby”. Svengali’s death-scene to the life!’
Trilby by George du Maurier, published in
1894, was the literary sensation of the time
and was produced on stage by Herbert
Beerbohm Tree in September 1895. The
leading Punch cartoonist, du Maurier died in
October 1896. The film was described in the
Edison catalogue as ‘very funny’.
By early July the Pandora Gallery was renamed the Victoria Hall. On 6 July 1896 an
extended run of R W Paul’s ‘Celebrated
Animatographe’ began. The programme ran
for 11 hours a day from 11:30 am, admission
6d (2½p), reserved seats 1s (5p). The Brighton
Gazette (7 July 1896) gives a vivid account of
the opening and hints at the continuing
problems of putting on such shows.
Reports of the extraordinary effects produced
by Mr R. W. Paul’s instrument, the
animatographe, now being shown at the
London Alhambra, have roused the curiosity
of Brightonians to a considerable pitch. It was
inevitable that before long they should have
an opportunity, here on the spot, of testing for
themselves the truth of the statements
circulated, and yesterday the first opportunity
was afforded to them of so doing. Mr R. W.
Paul has brought an instrument, similar to
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that being shown at the London Alhambra ...
[and] he is giving daily exhibitions at the
Victoria Hall, nearly opposite the West Pier. A
number of ladies and gentlemen accepted
invitations to be present at the inaugural
exhibition yesterday, when the animatographe
was manipulated by the inventor in person.
Making allowances for preliminary
difficulties, which can easily be met in future,
the performance was remarkably successful.
In fact, one or two “scenes” which were put
through twice came out much better at the
second than at the first trial. The pictures
included several which have already become
famous. The victory of Persimmon in the
Derby, and the arrival of the Paris express at
Calais, were both received with enthusiasm;
but, artistically, a much better picture was
obtained in a boat scene at Brighton. The
troubles of landing experienced by a party of
young men and women are most clearly and
humorously pourtrayed [sic]. Another
excellent effect shows the entrance to the West
Pier at a busy moment; while a party of young
people, whose movements are conspicuous,
might easily be recognised. Then there is a
representation of a rough sea at Ramsgate, two
or three street scenes in London, a conjuring
performance by David Devant, and various
other subjects. The entertainment has
necessarily to take place in total darkness, but
the otherwise weird effect is relieved by music.
The experience of watching in a totally dark
room was weird enough to merit comment.
R W Paul had filmed the 1896 Derby on 3
June and screened the results in London the
next day. The Brighton & Hove Guardian (8
July 1896) was exuberant in its praise:
We strongly recommend the exhibition to our
readers, as upon the whole one of the most
CInema-going Technology challenges
the Danish-Swedish film I, A Woman (Jeg—
en kvinde) but then relented.
Such variations and deviations have rarely
occurred since. However, the emergence of a
richer independent film-making culture—
high-definition video production provides the
cheapest and most accessible means ever to
shoot movies—has brought local authority
licensing departments back into the frame.
Micro-budget films that have not been
through the costly process of applying for a
BBFC certificate can apply for a local
classification for screenings within the city.
European films were
popular in
mainstream cinemas
in the 1950s:
1 Bicycle Thieves
2 Mon Oncle
3 French Can-Can
4 An audience
watching a 3D film
in the 1950s
1
2
3
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Technological alternatives
A surprising number of alternatives to
conventional films have been seen in Brighton
cinemas, even in the early days. The first was
the colour films made by the Natural Colour
Kinematograph Company with the name
Kinemacolor (see page 141). These films were
a features of the programming at the ACADEMY
CINEMA when it opened in 1911 and continued there for the next two or three years.
In 1914 two Brighton cinemas showed
experiments in 3D film, a concept on which
inventors, including WILLIAM FRIESE GREENE in
Brighton, had been working for almost as long
as pictures could move. The ARCADIA had the
Stereoscopograph projection system, about
which nothing is known. However, at around
the same time the PALLADIUM put on shows of
Kinoplastikon, ‘films without a screen’, along
with other films on the normal screen. This
was developed by Theodore Brown, whose day
job was as editor of Kinematograph and
Lantern Weekly. He was a prolific inventor
and an associate of CHARLES URBAN. This idea
was based on the stage illusion known as
‘Pepper’s ghost’ in which images are projected
onto a pane of glass, angled at 45 degrees to
the audience.
In 1924 the EMPIRE PICTURE THEATRE in
Hove showed Plastigram 3D films. This was
an anaglyph system, requiring the audience to
wear spectacles with separate red and green
filters over each eye. The REGENT screened a
3D film that did not require glasses (known as
‘autostereoscopy’) in 1925. It is not known
which technology was used but it probably
involved a beaded or lenticular screen, using a
principle similar to the plastic cards in which
the image appears to move when the card is
tilted from side to side.
With the advance of television in the early
1950s, Hollywood studios looked to new film
formats to retain audiences. A brief surge of
interest in 3D gave an opportunity for a
collection of mainly British 3D films to fill the
4
gap while new films were made. In the
summer of 1951 one of the hits of the Festival
of Britain was the Telekinema (later the
National Film Theatre). A programme of 3D
shorts produced by a company called StereoTechniques was shown. The sales director was
KENNETH NYMAN, proprietor of the CURZON
KINEMA in Brighton. The films were screened
at the Curzon in special morning shows in
April 1952, admission 6d (2½p).
MGM revived an anaglyph format that it
had first tried in 1941 and which was now
released as Metroscopix to support the main
feature, screened at the SAVOY, Brighton and
the GRANADA, Hove.
The first 3D feature film shown in
Brighton, Man in the Dark, was seen at the
ESSOLDO in June 1953. Unusually, it ran in
separate performances and at premium prices.
Bwana Devil ('A lion in your lap, a lover in
your arms') came hot on its heels the next
week. Two weeks later the Technicolor chiller
House of Wax opened at the ASTORIA for a
four-week run, immediately followed by
another stereoscopic sensation, Sangaree, on
the newly installed wide screen. The Astoria
continued to be Brighton’s only 3D venue into
1954, showing films that had already been on
ABC-owned first-run screens (the SAVOY and
GRANADA) in ‘flat’ versions.
However, it was Cinemascope that won
out in the battle of the formats and 3D fizzled
out by mid 1954. We had to wait more than 40
years for stereoscopy to re-emerge in the
digital age, after more than a century of
development. All Brighton’s cinemas (but not
all screens) are now equipped for digital 3D
screenings. However, it is debatable whether
the revived interest in 3D at the end of the
2000s can survive to rise above the level of
another short-lived gimmick.
For some, although not for technological
reasons, foreign-language films are regarded as
just as unconventional. In the 1950s mainstream cinemas showed occasional foreign
films, such as Bicycle Thieves, Mon Oncle,
French Can-Can and Le Salaire de la Peur
(The Wages of Fear), although it was the
CONTINENTALE and the shorter-lived BRIGHTON
FILM THEATRE that were the more regular
venues for European cinema.
Cinemas Continentale Cinema
Continentale Cinema
1 The entrance to the
Continentale in in
1966, when the
double bill included
the French musical,
Umbrellas of
Cherbourg
2 The doorway in
1966—cinema, but
not punctuation, at
its best
Sudeley Place, Kemp Town, Brighton
operated 1920-1986
King’s Cliff Cinema/Sudeley Place Picture House
1920-1943
Metro Cinema 1948?
Picture Playhouse 1949
Playhouse Cinema 1949-1951
Continentale Cinema 1951-1986
1920 Opened as the King’s Cliff Cinema (also
known as the Sudeley Place Picture House) in a
converted Congregational chapel (built in 1891),
converted by local architects Denman & Matthew
(Brighton). Proprietors are W & R A Easter.
Continuous shows, three changes a week, 300 seats,
prices 6d-1s 6d. Proscenium is 21 feet wide.
1921 Tea room at the back is knocked through into
the main auditorium, adding 78 seats.
1924 Prices are reduced to 5d-1s 3d.
1930 Owned by Mrs L Reith Fellows (see also
TIVOLI, Western Road, Hove). GB-Kalee sound
system installed.
1931 Proprietors are L & A Bell.
1934 Prices reduced to 4d-9d.
1939 September 2 Re-opens after (still incomplete)
refurbishment. It closes the next day under the
wartime restrictions on cinema opening.
1941 Proprietors are now H S Walker and D J
Hayes. Programmes daily from 14:15. Prices 5d-1s
2d.
1942 Prices 4d-1s 6d
1943 May Re-opens after temporary closure since
1941.
1946 Renamed Metro News Kine by the new
owners (Jack Leslie & Co) with a news theatre
policy, but reverts to feature films by the end of July.
Prices now 10d-1s 6d, continuous from 15:15,
booked at the hall; proscenium width now 14ft,
according to the Kine Year Book (KYB) British
Acoustic Films (BAF) sound system.
1946 November 30 Changed from cinema use to
become the Playhouse Theatre with a repertory
company.
1948 Acquired by MILES BYRNE, who at this time is
entering the cinema business in Hereford, which
becomes his main base. Sunday shows of French
films are introduced. The repertory theatre is
dispensed with in favour of films and gives its last
performance on 26 March 1949.
1949 March 28 Renamed the Playhouse Cinema,
leased to GEORGE FERNIE.
1950 December Closes for installation of heating
and 300 new seats.
1951 April 30 The name is changed to Continental
Playhouse and almost immediately after to the
Continentale Cinema, showing European films.
1953 January Infra-red heating system installed.
Listed in KYB as run by Fernie & Sydenham. Prices
1s 6d-3s 1d.
1957 Listed as run by G H Fernie. Prices 1d 6d-3s
2d.
1961 Converted for Cinemascope. Prices 1s 6d-3s.
1965 Owned and, following the death of George
Fernie, also managed by the Miles Byrne Organisation (now at 2 St John’s Road, Burgess Hill).
Complete refurbishment carried out at a cost of
£5,000. Programming changes to art-house films
(Jules et Jim) in the evenings, soft porn films (My
Bare Lady) in the afternoons, with Hollywood reruns for the holidays. [The art-house films are later
dropped in favour of an all-sex regime.]
1967 Brighton Council refuses to accept the BBFC
certificate (X, subsequently reduced to 15) for
Joseph Strick’s film of James Joyce’s Ulysses and
briefly bans the film. [Byrne’s Orion Cinema in
Burgess Hill is meanwhile allowed to show the film.]
1968 Brighton Council briefly refuses to accept the
BBFC X-rated classification for the Swedish film I,
A Woman.
1968 Capacity now given as 267 seats. Prices 4s, 5s.
Screen 20ft x 9ft, Cinemascope.
1
2
48
Cinemas Victoria Hall—West Pier
Troxy Cinema
104 North Road,
Brighton
operated 1934-1938
see Coronation
Cinema
UGC Cinemas
Brighton Marina
operated 1999-date
see Cineworld
Virgin Cinemas
Brighton Marina
operated 1995-1999
see Cineworld
Vogue Cinema
Lewes Road, Brighton
operated 1971-1979
see Gaiety Cinema
Winton’s Hall
Church Street,
Shoreham
operated 1910-1914
see Star Electric
Picture Palace
1931 Two changes weekly. Prices 6d-1s 10d.
1932 An optical sound system is installed. Prices
7d-1s 10d.
1936 In response to the refurbishment of the
nearby CURZON, the Tivoli is redecorated, with new
projectors, new carpets, new seats with padded arm
rests and, at the front of house, a new canopy and
revolving door.
1934 Prices 6d and 1s.
1946 November 2 Closed while a new, larger
projection box is constructed with access from the
front of house, to replace the previous one, which was
condemned as a health and safety risk (see 1912).
1946 December 26 Re-opens.
1948 Acquired by HARRY JACOBS, who also owns the
CURZON. Prices 10d and 1s 9d, 350 seats, continuous
performances, booked at the hall; proscenium 20ft.
1950 April Land acquired behind the cinema is used
to extend the auditorium by 60 feet.
1950 May 15 Re-opens with the name Embassy
Cinema; 398 seats; Walturdaw sound system.
1953 Prices 1s-2s 8d.
1957 Prices 1s-2s 9d; two changes weekly.
1961-62 Prices 1s 6d-3s.
1967 Acquired from Harry Jacobs by MILES BYRNE,
booked at Byrne House, 2 St John’s Road, Burgess Hill.
1979 May Planning permission to split the building
into a gambling club and smaller cinema upstairs is
refused, so Byrne looks to take over the BRIGHTON
FILM THEATRE (see PRINCE’S CINEMA).
1981 April 25 Closes. The final films are a double
bill of The Spaceman and King Arthur and Dumbo.
z It was briefly a music venue (apparently closed as
such after fights at a gig by The Jam) and then the
Black Cat bingo club until the late 1980s. It was later
used, still virtually unchanged from its cinema
layout, as a pine furniture supermarket and then as
a Lazer Warriors adventure game site and for other
retail and leisure purposes. It then became an
amusement arcade and closed again. Plans to turn it
into a lap-dancing club in 2003 were rejected by the
council after concerted opposition.
z The entrance area became a coffee house in 2006.
The auditorium was demolished in July 2007 and
replaced by housing.
Victoria Hall
132 King’s Road, Brighton
operated 1896
z This was previously the PANDORA GALLERY.
1896 July 6 R W PAUL’s ‘Celebrated Animatographe’
begins a run of shows that lasts until November.
Admission 6d, reserved seats 1s.
z The GEM CINEMA is at this address in the 1950s.
West Pier Pavilion
King’s Road, Brighton
operated 1895-c1914
1895 spring Several Edison kinetoscope machines
were installed on the pier.
1900 October A programme by Gordon & Co of
London, Sons of the Empire, includes films of the
Boer War and JAMES WILLIAMSON’s Attack on a
Chinese Mission. Regular shows at 15:00 and 20:00
daily. Around this time Gordon & Co ran the
Rotunda and a separate franchise on the pier for
Edison’s phonograph and kinetoscopes.
1910 Alfred J West’s Our Navy and Our Army films
are still being shown.
1912 October ‘Open air day and night cinema’ is an
attraction at the pier head. Three two-hour shows
daily at 11:00, 15:00 and 19:30. A special ‘day and
night screen’ is set back within a black proscenium
‘resembling a big tent’ forming an enclosure seating
400 people. It was still in operation six months later.
z A MUTOSCOPE machine was on the pier in 1901
(see below).
Mutoscope parlours
One of the attractions on the West
Pier in 1901 was a Mutoscope
machine—the classic penny-in-theslot ‘what the butler saw’ device—in
which the sequence of film images
was printed onto cards that flipped
over as the handle is turned,
creating the illusion of movement.
Clearly a hit with the lads in their
caps, knickerbockers and boots.
The country’s first Mutoscope
parlour outside London opened at
22 Western Road, Brighton at the
end of November 1898. The business was based at 27b West Street,
which also had viewing facilities,
and there were other parlours
around Brighton from the end of
1898 until around 1903, at 105
King’s Road and 50 Western Road.
The manager at West Street in 1901
was a Mr Alexander, in 1902-03
Mr C Glenister.
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Films: the silent era
The chequered history of film-making and film-makers in Brighton and Hove
Film-making began in Brighton and Hove in
July 1896 when ROBERT W PAUL shot a film on
Brighton beach to include in his ‘celebrated
animatographe’ programme that began a run
at the VICTORIA HALL on King’s Road on 6 July.
He was followed by his colleague BIRT ACRES
in August. Around that time the first of
Brighton’s own film-makers emerged. ESMÉ
COLLINGS was a portrait photographer with a
studio at 120 Western Road, Hove. For a year
or so he had been in partnership with the
more famous WILLIAM FRIESE GREENE but had
dissolved the business in 1888 because of
Friese Greene’s unreliability and tendency to
spend time and money on an endless stream
of projects, foremost among them being the
pursuit of moving pictures. But Collings
would obviously have been aware of his
former partner’s experiments.
At all events, he was quick off the mark. It
is not clear how and where he acquired his
first camera. At this time the market for films
and equipment had yet to develop and the few
enthusiasts either built their own cameras and
projectors or acquired them from other early
adopters. Collings may have bought one from
the likes of R W Paul or BIRT ACRES or perhaps
he built one for himself—but during the early
summer of 1896 he started to shoot films on
the seafront and beach between the piers.
On 18 September 1896 the second
important figure to become involved in local
film-making, the mechanical engineer ALFRED
DARLING, began to carry out small jobs for
Collings. This continued until December,
when Darling undertook his first work for
GEORGE ALBERT SMITH.
Brighton and Hove’s first film-makers
came from differing but complementary
backgrounds. Collings was a portrait
photographer and artist, JAMES WILLIAMSON a
pharmacist in Church Road, Hove since 1886,
where he also carried out processing and
printing for local photographers, and Smith
was a showman and optical lanternist well
practised in entertaining audiences with visual
trickery. And as we shall see, Smith was also
lucky enough to be married to an actress,
LAURA BAYLEY, with a talent for comedy, which
would prove to be a fruitful asset as their filmmaking partnership developed.
In the beginning the simplest way to make
films was to point the camera at anything—the
beach, the street—and shoot. For the time
being, that was enough to create ‘the sensation
of the century’.
But then the urge made itself felt to put
something different in front of the camera.
Why not also make local versions of the films
the Lumière brothers had shown to such
resounding applause in Paris and London? So
Collings shot Hose Scene, recreating
L’arroseur arrosé , the film seen in the
Lumière poster (see page 9)—possibly the first
staged scene filmed in Britain—and Train
arriving at Dyke Station. When in 1897 G A
Smith made Arrival and Departure of a Train
at Hove (see the title page) he could have been
copying either.
Collings lost interest in film very quickly
and his activity barely lasted out the year. But
at the beginning of October 1896 he made
what is probably the first ever film featuring a
named, established performer. AUGUSTE VAN
BIENE and company were appearing at the
Eden Theatre in his musical melodrama The
Broken Melody in the week ending 3 October.
[For the record, MARIE ILLINGTON was starring
a few doors away at the THEATRE ROYAL that
same week.] Collings filmed van Biene in a
scene from the play. A second film, entitled
Musical Party, Van Biene, was also shot.
In November Collings was in Paris, where
he filmed the Csar, stopping off in London on
the way back to record the Lord Mayor’s Show.
The other significant ‘first’ attributed to
Collings is Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir, in
which the lady removes her outer garments in
a manner that earned the film a reputation as
the first ‘blue movie’, deemed suitable only for
gentlemen’s smoking parties. He also filmed
some short scenes commissioned by the Irish
actor-manager Lewis Sealy for inclusion in
stage shows to accompany live performers and
singers.
next to a film title
indicates that it can
be viewed online,
usually on YouTube
Cross-references to
names of people
included in Part 7 are
shown in SMALL
CAPITALS
George Albert Smith picked up where Collings
left off. In his first year as a film-maker, 1897,
Smith made 40 films (or 34 if different scenes
in series are not counted separately), including
his own versions of some popular films, such
as Children Paddling at the Seaside and
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Films: the silent era Film technique develops
It was also one of three films from that
year in which he used superimposition in
addition to the jump cut. This was a difficult
effect to achieve and involved careful
planning. The main scene had to be shot first.
Then the film was wound back in the camera
and re-exposed through a circular mask
designed to fit the new image into the
blacked-out area of the main scene.
Music hall provided a ready supply of
performers for early films, not least those who
lived in Brighton. (They rarely lived in the
more genteel environs of Hove.) Over the next
few years novelty acts were filmed much as
they were performed on stage, usually when
on the bill at one of the local halls. G A Smith
made an ‘animated portrait’ of Marie Lloyd,
one of the visiting greats, outside the
Alhambra Theatre (the future PALLADIUM
CINEMA) on King’s Road in 1898, although this
was more of a staged documentary, albeit one
obviously made with her collaboration.
James Williamson was bringing himself up
to speed with a mixture of actuality scenes—
cricketers at the Sussex county ground,
holiday-makers in the fairground at Devil’s
Dyke, Barnum’s circus parading along Hove
seafront—and comedies. For performers
Williamson, lacking Smith’s contacts, usually
looked no further than his own children and
himself. He made his first film appearance in
1898, daughter Florence the following year.
But more significantly his two eldest sons,
Alan and Colin, featured as Two Naughty
Boys in three films made in 1898, with more
to follow in due course. The concept of the
comedy series was born, soon to be taken up
even more enthusiastically by G A Smith over
the next couple of years in half a dozen films
with Tom Green and Mr Hunter as The Two
Old Sports and other such pairings. Although
Williamson’s work was not (yet) as technically
adventurous as his Hove contemporary’s, the
descriptions of his sketches suggest a very
pleasant English sense of humour.
If 1899 proved to be a relatively quiet year
in terms of output, it did produce one film
that is regarded as a major landmark in film
technique: The Kiss in the Tunnel . Smith
took existing footage by
2
1
G A Smith’s Santa Claus combined
special effects techniques that he
pioneered. After putting the children
to bed (left), the maid turns out the
light. This is effected by a jump cut;
during the break the wall of the set
is covered with a black cloth, the
maid holding (or resuming) the
same position (below).
The film is carefully and precisely
rewound and the vignette of Santa
on the roof is superimposed on the
dark wall. The vignette ends and
Santa appears through the drapes in
the still dark room to put presents in
the children’s stockings. Smith then
uses another jump cut to make Santa
disappear suddenly
another film-maker, of a popular kind known
as a phantom ride—shot from a flat car in
front of a railway engine—and, at the point
where the train goes into a tunnel, inserted his
own scene of a man and woman (played by
Smith and wife Laura Bayley) inside a
carriage. He gets up, removes his top hat,
kisses her, then sits down (on his hat) as if
nothing had happened, just before the train
emerges from the tunnel. This is claimed as
probably the earliest example of film editing,
in the sense of what later theorists called
All films by G A
Smith
1 Santa Claus began
with a printed film
title—a previously
unknown practice, as
was
2 the single frame
claiming copyright
3 A Kiss in the
Tunnel
3
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Films: the silent era Cameras roll in Shoreham
1 Films could also be
watched in the comfort of the home with
this hand-cranked
contraption, made to
resemble a sewing
machine, then the
only widely available
domestic gadget. It
was introduced in
1912 and, for safety,
used non-standard
28mm non-flammable film. The lamp
was powered by a
dynamo, charged by
turning the handle. It
cost £15, including
two films. Think
early DVD
1
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Theatre on Western Road, Brighton in 1909—
as it happened, one of the longest surviving
cinema sites in the city through its various
names, including the CURZON. In 1911 he
formed the Brighton and County Film Company. The one minute Xmas Greeting Film
that he made towards the end of the year was
probably a trial run for screening to patrons at
his cinema. It was not entirely unknown for
cinemas to screen locally-made films: the
HIPPODROME and the PALLADIUM had started
showing their own newsreels in 1909 and the
Empire Picture Theatre followed suit with
Eddie Scriven’s newsreels the following year.
Speer himself had started to programme the
Pathé Animated Gazette during 1911.
Serious production got under way in
1912—and the company was renamed
Brightonia—with two more sustained efforts,
a melodrama and a crime story, shot on
location in the area. Speer directed these films
himself but for the six films made by
Brightonia in 1913 the company brought in an
actor/director, ARTHUR CHARRINGTON, about
whom little is known. The production
ambitions were on a new scale. One of the
films, The Grip of Iron, lasted almost an hour.
Perhaps it was Charrington who brought
along a group of actors who not only formed
the nucleus of a repertory company at
Brightonia but went on after the First World
War to make films at Shoreham. Among them
were NELL EMERALD (sister-in-law of stage star
Stanley Lupino and aunt of IDA LUPINO), her
sister Monnie Mine, FRANK E PETLEY and H
AGAR LYONS, who, a year after Brighton, was in
the new film colony of Hollywood to appear
in the first Kinemacolor feature film.
Meanwhile, seven miles to the west, a
group of music hall comedians started to make
films of their best-known sketches, using the
ruin of an old fort at Shoreham, dating from
Napoleonic times, as a ‘studio’. The Sunny
South Film Company made eight short films
in 1914-1915 before F L Lyndhurst, one of the
founders, took over the business and changed
its name to the Sealight Film Company. For
this he built a glass-house studio (see page
204) further west, at King’s Gap, on a concrete
slab that was laid on the shingle, adjacent to
the newly built Church of the Good Shepherd.
However, the new company made only one
four-reel film, directed by Lyndhurst, in 1916.
With war raging just across the Channel,
Lyndhurst then sold the studio to the Olympic
Kine Trading Company, a film distributor that
was probably thinking of a move into production. If so, it never happened and Olympic
sold the studio on, without ever rolling the
cameras, to FRANK E SPRING, a film producer
from Lancashire who had recently set up the
Progress Film Company. All 17 films made at
Shoreham by Progress were directed by SIDNEY
MORGAN and photographed by STANLEY J
MUMFORD. The studio had a repertory
company of actors, although it was a feature of
British cinema at that time (perhaps a function of its size) that actors and directors were
frequently reunited in various combinations.
Progress was riding the wave of production in
the wake of war.
A major fire of some studio buildings in
1922 stopped Progress in its tracks and the
company never recovered. It leased what was
left of the studio facilities to Walter West and
then the Carlton Film Company, which made
the last films at Shoreham for 34 years. Sidney
Morgan and Frank Spring went on to make
films for Julius Hagen’s Astra-National
Productions and Sidney Morgan played the
part of Joxer Daly in Alfred Hitchcock’s film of
Juno and the Paycock (1930).
The last silent film made in the Brighton
area was called Auntie’s Antics. It was a classic
(and quite early) example of a ‘quota quickie’.
The 1927 Cinematograph Films Act introduced a requirement for all British cinemas to
devote at least five per cent of screen time to
British films, starting on 1 October 1928. This
small but guaranteed market was targeted by
producers and distributors who saw an opportunity to make cheap films simply to satisfy
the quota—never mind the quality. Auntie’s
Antics was made at Preston by a couple called
Wilf Gannon and Hilda Sayer for £114 and
sold on to a distributor for £125. It may well
have been little more than an amateur
production for all we can tell. That was the
whimper with which Brighton film-making
came to an end for the time being.
Films: silent 1896
Silent
Many films were made in Brighton and Hove
during the early silent film era. In the first year
of production alone, 1896, possibly more than
two dozen films were shot in Brighton, most
apparently in the area between the two piers.
Esmé Collings made several story films that
were probably shot in Brighton, in addition to
the topographical titles listed below, and made
at least 25 films in 1896.
Not all the films listed here were necessarily
shot in Brighton and Hove—usually evidenced
from the title—but were made by film-makers
working from the city, where the films would
1896
usually have been processed and printed. In the
interests of completeness of the listings for
Brighton & Hove film-makers, these are
included but titles are shown in lighter type.
Some films have alternative titles. The
earliest productions never had a title on the
actual film, so the names are those given in
catalogues or programmes. The first titled films
appeared around 1902—G A Smith’s Santa
Claus being perhaps the first. As films were sold
outright, different showmen/exhibitors gave the
films different titles. This can lead to confusion.
Despite extensive checking and attempts at
rationalisation, it is therefore possible that some
films have been listed more than once.
Dates are normally of release, based on
inclusion in catalogues and trade advertising,
and can be assumed to be soon after
completion of the film, except as stated.
† Films known to
have survived
Policeman and Cook (alt title Love Scene) # comic.
Rough Sea (alt titles The Hove Sea Wall in a Gale
and Ocean Waves in a Storm) #.
Street Scene #.
West Street Brighton (alt title A Street in Brighton)
#.
# All Collings’ films
are approximately
40ft. Films marked #
were offered for sale
in Germany in
January 1897 by
Romain Talbot, a
Berlin distributor,
who gave the length
as 23 metres (90ft).
This is probably an
exaggeration.
Filmed by ESMÉ COLLINGS away from Brighton
R W PAUL and BIRT ACRES
On Brighton Beach (R W PAUL, July) † The first film
shot in Brighton. In the middle distance, a small
boat comes in and leaves again as people mill
around at the water’s edge. See page 10. Brighton on a Bank Holiday (BIRT ACRES, August).
King’s Road and the West Pier.
Landing at Low Tide (BIRT ACRES, August).
Scrambling Urchins (BIRT ACRES, August).
ESMÉ COLLINGS
probably shot in Brighton
Bathers on the Beach at Brighton † (summer).
Bicycle Rider #.
Boys Under Pier (alt title Boys scrambling for
pennies under the West Pier Brighton) (August).
The Broken Melody # (October) A simple story film
featuring AUGUSTE VAN BIENE, the actor-cellist in a
scene from his popular melodrama.
Children On The Beach #.
Children Paddling (alt title Children Playing in the
Sea) † # (August).
Crowds at Brighton #.
Donkey Riding (summer).
Dyke Station (alt title Train arriving at Dyke
Station) # Re-creation of the famous Lumière
film, demonstrating Collings’ awareness of the
films made for the Cinématographe.
Hose Scene (alt title Comic Scene). Re-creation of
another famous Lumière film, L’arroseur arrosé #.
King’s Road Brighton (alt titles Brighton Front on a
Bank Holiday and The Promenade at Brighton) #
(August).
Musical Party, Van Biene (October) see also The
Broken Melody, above.
Crowd at Law Court.
Crowded Streets in London #.
Czar in Paris two films (6-8 November).
English Cavalry in Aldershot two films #.
The Lord Mayor’s Show (alt title Lord Mayor) #
(9 November).
Military Scene #.
Portsmouth: The Ferry #.
Runners at Gatwick #.
Sailors of an English Warship.
Soldiers in Portsmouth (alt title
Soldiers Landing) #.
A Street in Portsmouth #.
Street Traffic in London #.
Westminster Bridge #.
Workmen Leaving Portsmouth
Dockyard #.
Films that can
be viewed online
(usually on
YouTube)
Cross-references to
names of people in
the biographies
section are in SMALL
CAPITALS
2
1
1 Esmé Collings:
Boys Under Pier
2 Esmé Collings:
Donkey Riding
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Films: silent 1902
Not the 1902 coronation
kitchen, building the fire in the range and
blacking the boots, Smith cuts from the wider
establishing shot to closer shots to direct the
audience’s attention. In particular, he uses closeups of LAURA BAYLEY as Mary Jane playing to the
camera when she admires her smudged face in a
mirror and of her pouring paraffin on the fire in
which she winks at the camera. This is an unusual
and significant breaking of the ‘fourth-wall’
convention, drawing the audience into complicity
with her actions. When the fire explodes and
blows Mary Jane up the chimney, Smith uses a
jump cut just as the cloud of smoke expands to
take Mary Jane out of shot. She next appears (in
life-size dummy form) emerging from the chimney and descending in pieces. The close-up of her
tombstone, effectively an intertitle—complete with
‘Rest in Pieces’ joke—gives way to a graveyard
scene through a vertical soft-edge wipe—both
pioneering aspects of film grammar. Finally, the
women who visit the grave are scared away by
Mary Jane’s superimposed ghost. She reaches
down the paraffin can and returns to the earth as
her cat stands by the grave. A substantially
extended reworking of Biograph’s How Brigit
Made the Fire (1900) and a two-shot Edison film,
The Finish of Bridget McKeen (1901), this shows
the level of sophistication to which Smith’s filmmaking has aspired. Released in the US by
Biograph, Kleine, Edison and S Lubin, April 1903.
See page 81.
The Monk in the Monastery Wine Cellar (50ft).
Released in the US by Biograph, April 1903.
The Monk in the Studio (100ft). Featuring D
Philippe.
The Monk’s Macaroni Feast (125ft). Featuring D
Philippe.
The Monk’s Ruse for Lunch (100ft). Featuring D
Philippe.
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes (totalling 550ft or
600ft). Features TOM GREEN. Eight scenes,
probably re-enacted from a pantomime: Goosey
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The big news event of 1902—apart from the
end of the Boer War—was Edward VII’s coronation, the first such ceremonial since Queen
Victoria’s in 1838 and the first since the
advent of the cinematograph. The Mutoscope
and Biograph company had secured the rights
to film the actual event, So CHARLES URBAN of
Warwick Trading Company commissioned a
version of the ceremony to be co-directed by
GEORGE ALBERT SMITH and Georges Méliès
and made with actors in advance at Méliès'
Star Films studio in Montreil, Paris. The idea
was to have the film ready for release at the
time of the event on 26 June. However, the
king fell ill and the coronation was postponed
until 9 August. This still shows that the lavish
production of the Coronation of Their
Majesties King Edward VII and Queen
Alexandria [sic] (alt title Le Sacré d’Edouard)
would probably have outshone its actuality
rivals, hinting at the enhanced production
values that were to come.
Gander, Hey Diddle Diddle*, Jack and Jill, Little
Miss Muffet, Old King Cole and Blackbird Pie*,
Old Mother Hubbard*, Old Woman in a Shoe,
Sing a Song of Sixpence (*copies survive from
Biokam versions). Smith may have shot two
versions of some or all parts on standard 35mm
and 17.5mm Biokam. Released in the US by
Edison, February 1903.
Oh That Collar Button! (50ft).
Old Lady Tries to Thread Her Needle † (45ft)
Possibly the version of Grandma Threading Her
Needle (1900) released in the US by Edison,
September 1902. A 45ft copy with this title dated
1902 is in the National Film Archive.
Pa’s Comment on the Morning News † (44ft/75ft).
A ‘facial’, showing Pa reading the paper, thumping
the table and breaking his boiled egg, which
smells bad. Released in the US by American
Mutoscope and Biograph Company, April 1903.
Also released in a 17.5mm Biokam version with
the title How Pa Reads the Morning Paper.
Pantomime Girls Having a Lark (50ft). Possibly
made to show during a stage performance.
Policeman and Burglar † (46ft). A policeman finds
a burglar at work, they fight and the policeman
makes an arrest. Possibly originated on 17.5mm
Biokam. May be the last scene of After Dark (qv).
Robinson Crusoe † (53ft). Scenes from a
pantomime featuring a parrot and a monkey as
well as Mr and Mrs Crusoe and some dancing
girls. Crusoe may be played by LAURA BAYLEY. A
section called Pierrots survives.
Tambourine Dancing Quartet (135ft).
That Awful Cigar (alt title A Bad Cigar) (100ft).
May be a copy or re-release of A Bad Cigar (1900).
Tommy and the Mouse in the Art School (alt title
Little Willie and the Mouse) (50ft).
Tommy Atkins and his Harriet on a Bank Holiday
(50ft).
Too Much of a Good Thing (50ft).
The Two Old Sports at the Music Hall (75ft). Latest
in the series by TOM GREEN and Mr Hunter.
Films: silent 1905
1
1 Our New Errand
Boy was shot in the
streets near the
Williamson studio,
many of them still
easily identifiable.
The two boys (top
right) are walking
over the railway
bridge, with the
newly built tree-lined
Wilbury Villas
behind them. The
studio was almost
immediately to the
left of and below the
bridge. The scene of
the errand boy and
the curate (bottom
left) is conveniently
placed next to the
street name in
Wilbury Villas (close
to the junction with
Cromwell Road),
although the sign
cannot now be
found. The water cart
appears to be in
Eaton Road. The
shop was a real
grocer’s at 2 Lorna
Road, near the junction with Cromwell
Road, the site now
occupied by garages
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This chance is soon offered by the policeman
leaving his coat and helmet outside a house where
he is entertained by the cook. The tramp makes
excellent use of these on a country road, where he
extracts a tip from a scorching motorist. He then
sends the policeman on a fool’s errand on being
asked concerning the lost property and feels
amply revenged.’ (Butcher’s catalogue).
Two Brave Little Japs (September, 490ft). War
melodrama.
1905
JAMES WILLIAMSON for Williamson Kinematograph Company (WKC), all also distributed
by Charles Urban Trading Company
Brown’s Half Holiday † (July, 400ft). Brown
wants to play tennis but his wife gets him to help
with spring-cleaning. Tasks go wrong. He traces a
gas leak, is blown up and thrown onto the tennis
court.
An Eclipse of the Moon (December, 170ft).
Comedy.
In the Good Old Times (October, 55ft). A ‘facial’.
Our New Errand Boy † (August, 388ft). Williamson appears as the grocer, his son Tom as the
errand boy, who gets up to tricks that culminate in
his being chased by a group of adults. The film
runs for nearly six minutes and, although there are
only 12 shots, the narrative has pace and style.
Williamson mixes types of composition: the shop
(Hodder’s at 2 Lorna Road) is filmed square on
with people arriving from various angles. The
scene of the two boys crossing the railway bridge
has the rest of Wilbury Villas in the background
and the water cart scene also shows the road
stretching beyond. Three scenes make use of the
corners of buildings to show people approaching
from two angles. Released in the US by
Williamson & Co, 14 March 1908.
The Polite Lunatic (September, 100ft). A lunatic
tries to return a putty knife to a workman who
runs away in fear, leading to a comedy chase.
The Prodigal Son, or Ruined at the Races (August,
585ft). Williamson’s longest film to date, in 10
scenes and running for almost 10 minutes. ‘An
excellent picture story, well told, in natural
scenery, with good racecourse scene.
The Real Sea Serpents. Uncertain.
The Rival Barbers † (July, 125ft). ‘Barber No 1
displays a striking advertisement which Barber No 2
adds to, to the detriment of Barber No 1. Some boys
and a gent see the joke, but not Barber No 1, who,
thinking he has caught the delinquent, hands the
gent into his shop, lathers him and kicks him out
again to the amusement of Barber No 2, who commiserates with his rival.’ (Butcher’s catalogue).
Released in the US by Williamson & Co, 15
February 1908.
Sausages (July, 275ft). ‘A loafer is given a job of
carrying round the streets a board with the
following legend: “Above is what Chopper’s
Sausages are made from”, above being a picture of a
fine prize pig. But the man soon tires of his job,
and is enticed to enter a public house with an
acquaintance, leaving his boards outside. On
resuming his boards he fails to notice that some
bill-posters had changed the pig for a cat. The fame
of this novel advertisement finally reaches
Films: the sound era
Visiting productions and the revival of the home-grown production scene
Considering that so many hundreds of films
had been made in Brighton and district right
through the silent era, it was as much as 20
years after the introduction of sound that the
first talkie was made locally—and it is still
without question the most iconic of all:
Brighton Rock (shot in 1947). There had been
one visiting production before that, The
Hundred Pound Window, in 1943, featuring a
20-year-old Richard Attenborough. In 1948
the Royal Pavilion had its first ever starring
role in The First Gentleman but it was the
rather less prestigious production of The Adventures of Jane, the first feature to come out
of the recently opened Brighton Film Studios,
that heralded an era when more regular use
was made of Brighton as a film location.
Brighton’s fame had not faded in the
hiatus since the end of the silent era. Apart
from being a convenient and familiar seaside
site within easy reach of London, it retained its
widespread reputation for its Regency connections, its leisure and illicit sex and even for its
crime, including gruesome murders.
Its reputation extended even to Hollywood. Who would have expected that the
musical that gave the world the two classic hit
songs Night and Day and The Continental—
The Gay Divorcee (1934)—was partly set in
‘Brighton’? (Actually, it was set in racy
Brightbourne, but we all know that does not
mean staid Eastbourne.) In 1945, RKO made a
film in Hollywood, The Brighton Strangler,
that was supposed to be set in Brighton,
although its depiction of the seafront owed
less to any actual topographical research than
to the imagination of RKO’s art department
recalling the rugged rocks of Cornwall’s
coastline in Hitchcock’s Rebecca.
Films and the city
For the early pioneers, the city was home, so it
featured naturally, first by providing scenes
simply to be photographed, then as the backdrop for action. Usually this meant somewhere
convenient. JAMES WILLIAMSON left a legacy of
images showing Hove as it was after the turn
of the century, especially close to his
pharmacies in Church Road and Western
Road, and even more so near his studio at
what is now Cambridge Grove. Many places
are virtually unchanged since his day. Then
there are lost scenes, such as Magnus Volk’s
Daddy Long-Legs electric railway that tan
from Madeira Drive in Brighton out to
Rottingdean through the briny. That was
filmed by R W PAUL and both G A SMITH and
Williamson. Smith went up to the Jack and Jill
windmills to make The Miller and the Sweep,
while Dave Aylott took cast and crew to
Hangleton and onto the Downs for the films
he made for Williamson in 1909.
Films made in Brighton and Hove since
then can be divided into those that are set in
the city and those that have found it convenient to use the city. The two best-known
films in the former category are, without
question, Brighton Rock and Quadrophenia
(1979). Both have storylines that are historically and intrinsically rooted in the place.
Despite these examples, Brighton was
probably too cosmopolitan a place, too close
to London, to establish a regional film culture
as, say, Manchester did during and after the
Second World War, when the two most
popular film stars in the north-west of
England were Bing Crosby and the Lancashire
comedian Frank Randle in films that came out
of the Mancunian Films studios in Dickinson
Road, Didsbury (later the first home of the
BBC’s Top of the Pops). The numerous
northern film stars of the 1930s and 1940s,
like Gracie Fields and George Formby, had
only one south-coast counterpart: the cheeky
chappie, Max Miller. All comedians, you’ll
notice. These were the days when ‘real’ actors
were trained out of their regional accents.
When that started to change either side of
1960, Brighton offered no equivalent to the
gritty northern kitchen-sink dramas.
Brighton’s principal stock-in-trade from
Brighton Rock onwards was crime. To some
extent this was in keeping with the prevailing
taste for noir, reflected in the novels of, say,
Patrick Hamilton, James Curtis and Graham
Greene. Between 1949 and 1964 Brighton Film
Studios was the mainstay for local production.
Murder and intrigue were regular fare
(although death was perhaps not as frequent
as in television’s Midsomer). A characteristic
in the 1970s was comedy—end-of-the-pier
style (Carry On) or farce (Loot).
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Sound
Films can be divided into those that use
Brighton, Hove and district simply as a
location to represent somewhere (anywhere)
else and those that use it as the specific setting
for all or part of the story. The latter group can
All feature-length titles in
chronological order
Released on DVD
Filmed in Brighton
1940s
1943: The Hundred Pound
Window
1947: Brighton Rock [US title:
Young Scarface] 1948: The First Gentleman
[US title: Affairs of a
Rogue]
1949: The Adventures of Jane
1950s
1950: The Dark Man
1951: Lady Godiva Rides
Again 1951: Penny Points to Paradise
1952: Ghost Ship 1952: Hot Ice
1952: My Death is a Mockery
1953: Genevieve 1953: The Girl on the Pier
1953: Solution by Phone
1953: The Straw Man
1953: Take a Powder
1954: Adventure in the
Hopfields
1954: Children Galore
1954: The Gelignite Gang [US
title: The Dynamiters]
1954: Mad About Men 1954: One Good Turn 1954: The Young Lovers
1955: Alias John Preston 1955: Cast a Dark Shadow 1955: The Flaw
1955: The Master Plan
1955: The Secret
1955: Alive on Saturday
(released 1957)
1957: Hell Drivers 1957: Quatermass II 1957: Rogue’s Yarn
1958: Battle of the V1 [US
title: Missiles from Hell]
then be subdivided into the ones actually
filmed in the city and those that never came
near the place, except for the odd establishing
shot.
The listing (in alphabetical order) is of
feature films, which in general means over one
hour running time, although some B-features
of not quite that length are included here.
Then films set but not shot in Brighton and a
selection of short films and newsreels follow.
1960s
1960: Linda
1961: The Night We Got the
Bird [US title: Who’s
Cuckoo?]
1961: Nudes of the World [US
titles: Nudes of all
Nations; The Sun the
Place and the Girl] 1961: KIL 1 [US title: Skin
Game]
1962: Jigsaw
1963: The Edgar Wallace
Mystery Theatre: The
Double
1963: Shadow of Fear 1963: Smokescreen 1964: The Chalk Garden 1965: Be My Guest 1968: La Ragazza con la
Pistola [English title:
Girl with a Pistol] 1968: Oh! What a Lovely War
1969: On a Clear Day You Can
See Forever 1969: The Big Switch [alt title:
Strip Poker] 1970s
1970: Loot 1971: All the Right Noises 1971: Carry On at your
Convenience 1971: Die Screaming,
Marianne 1971: Sporting Chance
1971: Villain 1972: The Flesh and Blood
Show [alt title: Asylum
of the Insane] 1972: Made
1973: Carry On Girls 1974: The Black Windmill 1977: Come Play With Me 1979: Quadrophenia 1980s
1983: The Ploughman’s Lunch
1986: Mona Lisa 1987: Wish You Were Here 1988: The Fruit Machine [US
title: Wonderland] 1988: A Handful of Dust 1990s
1991: Under Suspicion 1993: Dirty Weekend 1994: Mainline Run 1995: Fanny Hill 1995: Night Warrior: Deadly
Jade
1995: Richard III 1997: Project: Assassin 1999: Don’t Go Breaking My
Heart 1999: The End of the Affair 2000s
2000: The Big Finish 2000: Circus 2001: Me Without You 2001: Motion
2001: Plato’s Breaking Point
2001: Redemption Road
2001: Summer Rain 2003: Ashes and Sand 2003: The Blind Spot
2003: The Johnna Man
2003: Stewed 2004: Andrew and Jeremy Get
Married 2004: The Intuition Shorts
2004: Left for Dead 2004: Wimbledon 2005: MirrorMask 2005: Richard III
2005: Tan Lines 2005: Tomorrow 2006: And When Did You Last
See Your Father 2006: Cassandra’s Dream 2006: The Da Vinci Code 2006: Fixers
2006: January 2nd 2006: London to Brighton 2006: The Penalty King 2006: Sixty Six 2006: 10,000 Cigarettes
2007: Angus, Thongs and
Perfect Snogging 2007: Brighton Wok: The
Legend of Ganja Boxing
2007: Dolphins 2007: Llik [sic] Your Idols 2007: Teenland
2008: Ambleton Delight
2008: And Darren
2008: Conversations with
Dead Men
2008: Heavy Load
2008: Man in a Box
2008: Ten Dead Men 2008: The Intimate Strangers
Are Here
2009: The Boat that Rocked 2009: Bomber
2009: Breathe 2009: Down Terrace 2009: Heathen 2009: Highlight
2009: I Bet You
2009: The Night is Young
2009: Swimming in Circles
2009: The Young Victoria 2010s
2010: Brighton Rock 2010: Fly Trap
2011: Between the Silence 2011: City of Dreamers
2011: Profile of Fear
Set but not filmed in Brighton
1933: To Brighton with Gladys
1934: The Gay Divorcee 1937: It Began in Brighton
1938: Bank Holiday 1939: Inspector Hornleigh on
Holiday
1943: Millions Like Us 1945: The Brighton Strangler
1945: Pink String and Sealing
Wax 1947: Mrs Fitzherbert
1948: Uneasy Terms
1948: Good Time Girl
1951: The Magic Box 1954: Beau Brummell 1961: The Day the Earth
Caught Fire 2009: The Damned United How many have you seen?
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Films: sound Adventure in the Hopfields—Ambleton Delight
Affairs of a Rogue see
The First Gentleman
1 Welcome to
Brighton: the railway
station is one of the
city’s most used
locations, here in
The Adventures of
Jane (1949)
1
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Adventure in the Hopfields
alternative title: Hop Dog
UK | b&w | 60 mins | 1954
d John Guillermin; w John Cresswell from a novel
by Nora Lavin and Molly Thorp; ph Kenneth Talbot;
p Roger Proudlock; prod Vandyke Picture Corporation and Children’s Film Foundation; dist British
Lion
cast Mandy Miller, Melvyn Hayes; uncredited: Jane
Asher, Edward Judd, Anthony Valentine.
z A child runs away after being left behind when all
the family and neighbours go off for their annual
hop-picking holiday in Kent.
z Made at Brighton Film Studios. Location filming
mainly at Goudhurst in Kent, but with an extended
sequence of the girl hiding out in the Jill windmill
on the downs at Clayton, north of Brighton.
z The film was believed lost until a copy was found
being thrown out at a Chicago television studio.
Clips are on YouTube.
The Adventures of Jane
UK | b&w | 53 mins | 1949
d/p Edward G Whiting; w Alfred Goulding, Con
West and Edward G Whiting; ph Jack Rose; prod
Brighton Studios
cast Christabel Leighton-Porter, Dennis Price, Peter
Butterworth
z B-feature film of the Daily Mirror cartoon strip.
z Made at Brighton Film Studios and various
Brighton locations, including the Gaiety Cinema,
Brighton station, Marine Drive at Roedean and the
Tudor Close Hotel in Dean Court Road,
Rottingdean.
z A placard in the background of the scenes at the
station advertises the auction rooms in St Nicholas
Road, which Brighton Film Studios had recently
taken over.
z Whiting’s only film as director, although he
produced five films; the fourth, Schweik’s New
Adventure (1943), was coincidentally Richard
Attenborough’s second film, after In Which We
Serve, before THE HUNDRED POUND WINDOW.
Released on DVD with Murder at 3am.
Alias John Preston
UK | b&w | 66 mins | 1955
Released June 1956
d David MacDonald; w Paul Tabori; ph Jack Cox; p
Sid Stone; prod Danziger Productions
cast Christopher Lee, Alexander Knox, Betta
St John, Sandra Dorne, Patrick Holt, Bill Fraser,
Betty Ann Davies
z Psychological crime thriller about a schizophrenic
murderer who settles in an English village.
z Filmed at Brighton Film Studios but with no
evident sign of local locations.
z A version running 71 mins was released in the
USA by Associated Artists Productions in
December 1955.
Released on DVD in the USA.
Alive on Saturday
UK | b&w | 58 mins | 1955 (released February 1957)
d Alfred Travers; w Brandon Fleming; ph Hilton
Craig; p Brandon Fleming and Geoffrey Goodheart;
prod Pan Productions
cast GUY MIDDLETON, Patricia Owens, Geoffrey
Goodheart, John Witty
z Thriller, shot at Brighton Film Studios.
All the Right Noises
UK | colour | 92 mins | 1971
US release January 1973
d/w Gerry O’Hara from his own novel; ph Gerry
Fisher; p Si Litvinoff and John Quested; prod Si
Litvinoff Film Production and Trigon Films; dist
Twentieth Century-Fox (US)
cast Olivia Hussey, Tom Bell, Judy Carne, Lesley-Ann
Down
z Drama about older married man having an affair
with a teenager.
z Filmed mainly in London with scenes in
Manchester and on Brighton beach.
Released on DVD and Blu-ray.
Ambleton Delight
UK | colour | 110 mins | 2008
d Daniel Parkes; w Itsuka Yamasaki and Daniel
Parkes; ph Anna Carrington; p Daniel Parkes and
Sinead Ferguson; prod Parkes Productions and
Ferguson Pictures
cast Jos Lawton, Brian Capron, Ernest Worthing,
Kristina Ann Howell, Samantha Bolter, Andrew
Elias, Duncan Armitage, Judith Ellis-Jones, Sofia
Sanchez, Shirley Jaffe, John Hayden
z Drama about village intrigue, made on a £6,000
budget and a 12-day shooting schedule. with actors
and crew mainly from the region.
z Shot mostly in Alfriston, Sussex, scenes in
Brighton at the Marina (the Master Mariner
kitchens), Marine Square Gardens and Manor Way,
Whitehawk.
z Premiered at the End of the Pier International
Film Festival in Worthing on 25 April 2009,
winning the award for Best UK feature film. It was
also best feature film in the British Independent
Film Festival 2010. Jos Lawton won best actor in a
leading role at the International Filmmaker Festival
2009.
The film has its own website.
Films: sound Short films
kind to avant garde experimental
work. Space precludes the same
detailed listing as for feature-length
films and this is only a selection.
The number of short films made in
Many titles have no form of outlet,
Brighton and Hove seems to grow ex- except at occasional local club
ponentially. Content ranges from
screenings. Sadly, hardly anyone
documentary through fiction of every bothers to programme short films
any more. However, about a third of
those listed here can be viewed on
YouTube, shootingpeople.org, Vimeo,
circa69.co.uk or IMDb. Often the
work of emerging talent, some are as
good as anything you’ll see—inventive, challenging, visually stunning.
Alice, Through the Wonderglass 2012 | Brighton
Film Maker’s Coalition (trailer)
Alphabetic 2006 | b&w animation | 5 mins |
d Mark Collington
Apparently 2006 | 4 mins | d Kevin Squelch
Archie 2010 | 16 mins | d Nick Brackenbury
ARP 2006 | 9 mins | d Daniel Parkes
art:house 2008 | 30 mins | d Paul Loman
and Barbara Myers
ATM 2006 | 2 mins | d Daniel Parkes
Beth 2011 | 16 mins | d Gaz Wastman
Bird Feeder 2007 | 9 mins | d Jo Barnes
Tidbury The Blue Wheel 2011 | 5 mins | d Nathaniel
Torok Boyz Gone Bad 1996 | 23 mins | d Ross
Boyask and Phil Hobden
Brave Young Men 2009 | 30 mins | d Sam
Leifer
Brighton 1956 | 9 mins | d John King
Brighton 2011 | 4 mins | d Gez Medinger
and Robin Schmidt Brighton—Die Sinfonie der Großstadt 2010 |
10 ins | d Tom Sands Brighton Parkour 2010 | 7 mins | d Jamie
Alexander and Giles Campbell Longley Brighton West Pier, The Rise and Fall 2003 | 7
mins | Matt Crocker Chance of Rain 2011 | 15 mins | d William
Ranieri Chasing Heaven 2002 | 28 mins | d Claudia Solti
Constable 027 2009 | 14 min | d
Christopher Lee Ball Conversation with Yourself 2011 | 8 mins | d
William Ranieri Cregan 2007 | 11 mins | d Stephen North Crossed Lines 2008 | 15 mins | d Keith Eyles
(trailer)
Crossed Words 2010 | 7 mins | d Tom Sands The Crunch 2009 | b&w | 20 mins | d Luther
Jones
Dance of Shiva 1998 | 26 mins | d Jamie Payne;
cast Sanjeev Baskar, Kenneth Branagh, Julian
Glover, Paul McGann, Samuel West
A Day in Brighton 2006 | 4 mins | d Geraint
Hughes
Dial N for Nurder 2010 | colour/b&w | 11
min | d Marcus Hutton Drama School 2011 | 25 min | d Jamie
Patterson (trailer)
Easy Hours 2009 | 3 mins | d George Ravenscroft
Ella’s Dream 2008 | 9 mins | d Christianne
van Wijk Entree 2005 | 7 mins | d Sue Whitting
Fast Learners 2006 | 10 mins | d Christoph Röhl
Femme Fatale 2004 | 10 mins | d Lisa Holles
On Stony Ground 2009 | 10 mins | d Rehana
Rose Peerless: Memories from the West Pier 2006 |
colour/b&w | 16 mins | d Daniel Parkes
The Pig’s Family 1997 | 30 mins | d Martin
Guggisberg
Playground Express 1955 | b&w | 17 mins | d
John Irwin (at Brighton Film Studios)
A Postcard from Brighton 2009 | 12 mins | d
Guy Pitt Promenade 1968 | 40 mins | d Donovan
Winter [released as support for Planet of
the Apes]
Pucker Up! 2001 | 6 mins | d Katie Aidley
Quiet Mary Fish Momma 2004 | 8 mins | d
Simon Wilkinson Red Letter 2008 | 10 mins | d Edilberto Restino
Red Letter 2011 | 23 mins | d Tom Marshall
Robot 2008 | 4 min | d Matthew Keen
Sewn 2010 | 16 mins | d James R Kipping
She Don’t Look Back 2011 | 8 mins | d
Christopher Brown
A Silent Whistle 2009 | 12 mins | d Russell Kyle
Six Grand Slam 2000 | 20 mins | d Ross Boyask
Sleep 2001 | 10 mins | d Matthew Thompson
The Snowman 1982 | animation | 26 mins | d
Dianne Jackson and Jimmy T Murakami The Stars and the Stones 2000 | b&w | 7
mins | d James Hughes
Stiletto 2006 | 9 mins | Ewan Gorman
Ein Stück vom Himmel 2007 | 4 mins | John
Hillcoat
Suspected 2010 | Maria Alexopoulos
The Tainted Heart 2009 | 10 mins | d Tim
Pieraccini
Tenacity 2008 | 14 mins | Daniel Parkes
Theatre of Souls 2007 | 9 mins | d John Hoye
This is Not England, This is Brighton 2012 | 24
mins | d Ash Brosnan and Nathan
Godfrey To Kill a Kieran 2005 | 40 mins | d Mark
Powell (trailer)
To Let 2009 | 6 mins | d Harry Scriven
Trace 2008 | 9 mins | d Gavin Toomey
Unusual Journey 2006 | 1 Min | d Matthew
Hellett Varasova 2008 | d Stavroula Lialiou
Walking Shadows 2000 | 40 mins | d John
Langridge
West Pier 2001 | animation | 5 mins | d
Mark Collington West Pier 2010 | 4 mins | d Jacques Sirot West Pier 2012 | b&w | 8 mins | d William
Ranieri You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning 2003 |
28 mins | d Mark Jay
Shorts
Fish Can’t Fly 2006 | 3 mins | d Richard
Murphy Four Brothers and a Funeral 2005 | 15 mins |
d Sara Proudfoot-Clinch Frank 2010 | 12 mins | d Kate Herron
Gone 2003 | 10 mins | d Matthew
Thompson (winner, BBC Talent New
Film-makers Award 2003)
Goo 1999 | b&w | 1 min | d Simon
Wilkinson Goodbye 2008 | 21 mins | d Patrick Gather Greensleeves 2010 | 13 mins | d Stephen North
Home Video 2011 | 15 mins | d Robert
Cambrinus
Homecoming 2003 | 15 mins | d Emma Farrell
I Don’t Think It’s a Potato 2010 | 5 mins | d
Kristyna Vosecka I Put My Heart into This Film 2007 | 21 mins |
d Lawrence Mallinson I See Me 2005 | 15 mins | d Barbara Myers
and Paul Loman
Indeception 2011 | 8 mins | Brighton Film
Makers’ Coalition Inside 2009 | 4 mins | d Ross Shepherd
The Journey 2006 | 17 mina | d Katina
Medina Mora
Kiss Chase 2005 | 5 mins | d Maxim Jago
The Last Chance 2007 | 16 mins | d
Lawrence Richards
Let’s Go Crazy 1951 | b&w | d Alan Cullimore
at Brighton Film Studios; cast Peter Sellers
Life Sentence 2006 | 1 min | d Shaun Troke
The Lift, A ghost story 2011 | 8 mins | d Jason
Davison and Dick Douglass London to Brighton in Four Minutes 1952 |
b&w | 5 mins | BBC Film Unit Lone Wolf 1998 | 15 mins | d Ross Boyask
Lost Connection 2011 | 23 mins | d James
Keaton; cast Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie (clip, trailer)
A Lump in the Road 2005 | 7 mins | d
Heather Dixon
Magic Journey 2006 | animation| 1 min | d
Simon Carter
Manjinga 7: Monsters in the Sky 2009 | 5
mins | d George Ravenscroft The Mask 1953 | b&w | d Don Chaffey for
RTL Productions at Brighton Film Studios
Matches 2010 | 4 mins | d Daniel Morris
MatchSeller 2010 | 3 mins | d William
Ranieri Meat 2007 | 13 mins | d William Ranieri Mother’s Day 2009 | 14 mins | d Clive Ford
North Atlantic 2010 | 15 mins | d Bernardo
Nascimento Odd Shoe 2008 | 10 mins | d Paul Cotter z All in colour except as stated.
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Colour
1 The Lee and
Turner colour film
projector made in
Brighton by Alfred
Darling, with some
frames of film that
are believed to show
G A Smith’s children
1
briefly lived in the Lewes Road area of
Brighton, working as a photographer. Turner
wanted to develop a system of three-colour
cinematography and worked with Frederick
Marshall Lee, a financier. They came up with a
modified 38mm film camera in which a
rotating disc with red, green and blue filters
between three blanking sections replaced the
shutter. Each frame in turn was exposed
through one of the filters. The projector had
three lenses with a similar rotating filter
wheel. Turner and Lee were granted a patent
(no 6,202) on 29 March 1899. Both the
prototype camera and projector were made by
ALFRED DARLING in Ditchling Rise, Brighton
and the films were processed by G A SMITH at
St Ann’s Well Gardens.
Needing more funds for further
development, the pair approached CHARLES
URBAN, then still manager of the Warwick
Trading Company, the leading British film
distributor, which also had an interest in
making and selling equipment. In 1902 Lee
drifted away from the project but Turner
carried on alone until he died suddenly of a
heart attack on 9 March 1903 at the age of
only 29.
Turner’s system was deemed impractical,
not least because he had adopted a nonstandard (38mm = 1.5 inches) film gauge. It was
by no means uncommon for inventors to adopt
odd film sizes. Working in a gauge other than
35mm was a way of preventing the new system
being used with existing equipment.
A second problem was the frame rate.
‘Persistence of vision’ works when still images
are projected at such a speed that one image is
still being processed by the brain when the next
one appears. Early film adopted a speed of 16
fps (frames per second), below which flicker
was deemed unacceptable. To record three
primary-colour images in sequence and still
achieve the effect meant filming at a challenging
48fps.
A reel of film donated by Charles Urban to
the Science Museum (probably in 1937) was
discovered in 2012 in the National Media
Museum and digitised, revealing high quality
colour images. One of the short scenes was
filmed in St Ann’s Well Gardens, Hove, showing
a girl and boy, thought to be G A Smith’s own
children, Harold and Dorothea. However
impressive, the film shows the problem of
recording each colour sequentially: the slight
movement between each frame causes fringing
of the colours.
Urban bought up the Turner and Lee
patent and asked G A Smith to carry on with
the work, which Smith seemed only too
willing to do. He left St Ann’s Well Gardens in
August 1903, handed the lease to A H Tee and
moved to Roman Crescent in Southwick,
where he named his house Laboratory Lodge.
He also more or less abandoned film-making
and lived off savings and income from
previous film activities.
G A Smith takes on the research
Smith was very pragmatic about the project.
In a notably practical and business-like letter
to Urban from Laboratory Lodge in Southwick
on 21 March 1904 (now in the British Film
Institute collection), he wrote, ‘I should like to
arrange a co-operative scheme [his emphasis]
—you to keep me posted & supply your new
perfected machinery & I to adapt my colour
methods to it. Under this suggested arrangement your company would handle the results
of my method, & the advantage would be
mutual.’ Urban was at the time developing an
improved Bioscope, which, suitably adapted,
Smith envisaged would be used for his colour
films.
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The people
Who’s who among Brighton & Hove people associated with film and cinema
By the standards of the average British city,
Brighton & Hove has produced or been home
to an unusually high proportion of people
involved in the performing arts and the media.
The tradition goes back to Regency times
when fashionable society sought its entertainment at the Royal Newburgh Assembly Rooms
and patronised dancing masters.
With the coming of the railway in 1841 it
was not only the population that grew rapidly
—doubling in the next 30 years, and adding as
many more again in the following 30 years. So
too did the number of places for popular
entertainment, drawing into Brighton performers of all kinds. By the time film-making
began in the late 1890s the Brighton music
halls, like the theatres, were on a par with
those in London. Top acts were attracted to
the Alhambra, the Oxford, the Canterbury
Hall, the Pavilion Wine and Music Rooms, the
Empire, the two piers and, slightly later, the
HIPPODROME.
The first people to appear on film were the
ordinary folk playing on the beach or strolling
along the seafront or the pier. But even in that
first year of film-making, 1896, ESMÉ COLLINGS
shot a scene from a popular melodrama of the
time, The Broken Melody, with its writerperformer AUGUSTE VAN BIENE.
GEORGE ALBERT SMITH, one of the two
great Hove pioneer film-makers, seems to
have had the idea of recording famous people,
for novelty value if not for posterity, and took
his camera to Winchelsea in East Sussex to
film the great actress Ellen Terry at home as
early as August 1897. The following year he
made an ‘animated portrait’ of the music hall
star Marie Lloyd on the seafront outside the
Alhambra.
But by then story-telling was beginning to
emerge as the future of film. So when the
Hove pioneers needed performers, they were
to be found on the doorstep. The earliest to be
identified who appeared regularly were G A
Smith’s wife LAURA BAYLEY and TOM GREEN.
JAMES WILLIAMSON used SAM DALTON in
several films. Sometimes their stage acts were
recorded, as in Williamson’s Clever and Comic
Cycle Act (1900) by LOTTO, LILO AND OTTO
and CAPTAIN CLIVES and his Clever Dog Tiger
(1902). So Lassie and Uggie are in a canine
tradition that began in Brighton. Not to
mention the cat(s) in Smith’s films.
A significant number of screen acting
careers, including a substantial proportion of
those who appeared in films made at
Shoreham, began around the start of the Great
War and lasted until only the late 1920s. A fair
proportion of the 91 actors profiled here fall
into this category: the ones who did not
survive the transition to sound, although it
may be misleading to ascribe this to the sound
of their voices. Film acting also began to
change around that time to a more naturalistic
style. Some of the film drop-outs survived
perfectly well on the stage.
Actors listed in stage yearbooks from the
silent film era rarely acknowledged their film
work—oh, my dear, not the moving pictures!
ALICE DE WINTON, MAUDE CRESSWELL and
LANGHORNE BURTON were among the few who
mentioned film work in Who’s Who in the
Theatre. Music hall artistes, on the other hand
had no such reticence.
The second largest category in this section
comprises cinema exhibitors: 40 of them. The
early ones rarely lasted long in business.
Indeed, bankruptcy was a notable feature
among them. Five bankrupts are identified
here, plus one who failed to run a former
cinema as a theatre. But none can match
WILLIAM FRIESE GREENE’s familiarity with the
bankruptcy courts. Frank Launder, however,
began working life in the office of the Official
Receiver. Perhaps that experience informed his
writing of the delicious Alistair Sim cameo of
a desperate but stoical film producer in LADY
GODIVA RIDES AGAIN.
Cinema exhibitors have also been the
hardest to track down and there are at least 25
more identified as running local cinemas
about whom nothing has been discovered and
thus are not represented. Some of the profiles
that have made it into the following pages are
sketchy, to say the least. Two of them, notably,
were active in local politics. The 28 film
directors divide in roughly equal numbers
between silent cinema and the later period.
But it is the pioneers who deserve—and
receive—the most detailed attention. Although
the term ‘Brighton school’ coined by GEORGES
SADOUL is a bit of a misnomer, the concentra-
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The people Classified listing
Pioneers/inventors
Birt Acres
Laura Bayley
John Benett-Stanford
Esmé Collings
Alfred Darling
Will Day
William Friese Greene
Mrs Aubrey Le Blond
Robert W Paul
Otto Pfenninger
George Albert Smith
Charles Urban
James Williamson
Directors
Dave Aylott
Laura Bayley
John Benett-Stanford
Walter R Booth
John Boulting
Roy Boulting
Adrian Brunel
Arthur Charrington
Jack Chart
Jack Clayton
Alf Collins
Lance Comfort
Ernie Cornford
Graham Cutts
Maurice Elvey
Cy Endfield
Theo Frenkel
Jeff Keen
Frank Launder
Harry Lorraine
Ida Lupino
F L Lyndhurst
Sidney Morgan
Wilfred Noy
Oliver Pike
Joe Rosenthal
Edmond J Spitta
Lionel Tomlinson
Walter West
Producers
Oscar Lewenstein
Edmund Distin
Maddick
Roger Proudlock
James Quinn
Walter Harold Speer
Frank E Spring
Frank Sutherland
Lionel Tomlinson
Walter Wanger
Walter West
Herbert Wilcox
Derrick Wynne
Distributor
Alan Williamson
Animator
Anson Dyer
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Cinematographers
Thomas Brocksopp
Ernie Cornford
Harry Crowhurst
Claude Friese-Greene
Stanley Mumford
Henry Sanders
Eddie Scriven
F Percy Smith
David Watkin
Cinema exhibitors
Maud Barrasford
Tom Barrasford
Dan Benjamin
George Beyfus
George Bloch
Miles Byrne
Jack Channon
Joseph Cohen
J L Crown
P J Drew-Bear
Frederick George Ellis
Mrs L Reith Fellows
G H Fernie
Walter Robert Flint
J E Greaves
John Harris
J Henson Infield
Harry Jacobs
John King
Sydney K Lewis
E E Lyons
Edward F ‘Teddy’ Lyons
Violet Melnotte-Wyatt
Harold B Millar
Eric R Mills
Stanley C Mills
Kenneth A Nyman
E W Pashley Peall
P V Reynolds
Julian D Richards
Randolph E Richards
Edwin Houghton
Rockett
Alfred J Sadler
Harry Scriven
J Baxter Somerville
Walter Harold Speer
James Van Koert
Walter Wanger
Martin Waters
William Edward
Winton
Actors
Elizabeth Allan
Hylton Allen
Bobby Andrews
Dave Aylott
Sally Barnes
Eva Bayley
Laura Bayley
George Bellamy
Edna Best
Faith Bevan
Harvey Braban
Irene Browne
Jack Buchanan
Langhorne Burton
Louis Calvert
Arthur Charrington
Jack Chart
Mavis Clair
John Clements
Ivy Close
Jean Colin
Arthur Conquest
Ernie Cornford
Maud Cressall
Jill Day
Lewis Dayton
Alice de Winton
Charles Dormer
Alfred Drayton
Connie Ediss
Tubby Edlin
Nell Emerald
Maurice Evans
Derek Francis
Theo Frenkel
John Garrick
Leon Gordon
Nigel Green
Fred Groves
Bill Haley
Stuart Hall
Adeline Hayden Coffin
Patricia Hilliard
Marie Illington
Boyd Irwin
James Knight
Evelyn Laye
Andrew Leigh
Eve Lister
Henry Longhurst
Harry Lorraine
Ida Lupino
H Agar Lyons
André Maranne
Anita March
Julie Meijer
Mark Melford
Guy Middleton
Decima Moore
Eva Moore
Joan Morgan
Terence Morgan
Anna Neagle
Guy Newall
Michael Nightingale
Laurence Olivier
Cecil Parker
Frank E Petley
Herbert Rawlinson
Ralph Richardson
Flora Robson
Ivan Samson
Paul Schofield
Margaret Scudamore
Sebastian Shaw
Charles Aubrey Smith
Philip Stainton
Frank Sutherland
Nora Swinburne
Sybil Thorndike
Arthur Treacher
Florence Turner
Auguste van Biene
Kathleen Vaughan
Fred Walton
Lockwood West
Edmund Willard
Alan Williamson
Colin Williamson
Florence Williamson
Lilian Williamson
Stuart Williamson
Tom Williamson
Anthony Woodruff
Bernard Youens
Music hall/Variety
Chesney Allen
Douglas Byng
Captain Clives (Alfred
Holmes)
Charles Cobbold
John Cobbold
Arthur Conquest
Sam Dalton
Johnny Danvers
Fred Evans
Will Evans
George Graves
Tom Green
Daisy and Violet
Hilton
Fred Hutchins
Arthur Lennard
Marie Lloyd
Lotto, Lilo and Otto
Marie Mayhew
Matt and Lalla Melrose
Max Miller
Professor Reddish
George Robey
Johnny Schofield
Tommy Trinder
Syd Walker
Nellie Wallace
Eddie Whaley
Writers
Charles Bennett
Patrick Hamilton
Alan Melville
Roland Pertwee
Paul M Potter
Terence Rattigan
Val Valentine
Composers/musicians
Richard Addinsell
Terance Casey
Douglas Reeve
Auguste van Biene
Ralph Vaughan
Williams
Inventors/engineers
Alfred Darling
W Lascelles Davidson
E F Grün
Benjamin Jumeaux
Ernest Smith
Edward Turner
Colin Williamson
Stuart Williamson
Scientist
Demetre Daponte
Architects
Robert Atkinson
Frank Matcham
Designers/Artists
Carmen Dillon
Peter Strausfeld
Publicist
James Hardiman
Entrepreneurs
Walter de Frece
S F Edge
J Henson Infield
Edmund Distin
Maddick
Baron Nugent
Charles Urban
Administrator
W T Bradshaw
James Quinn
Politicians
Walter de Frece
E E Lyons
Alfred Cooper Rawson
Alfred J Sadler
Agent
Dennis Selinger
Other
Jacqueline Nearne
Edmond J Spitta
A H Tee
Historians/archivists
Will Day
Graham Head
Georges Sadoul
The People Acres—Atkinson
tion of talents in Brighton and especially Hove
at the dawn of cinema made a contribution to
the early development of the cinema that
arguably matched and even outstripped anywhere else in the world. Smith, Williamson,
ALFRED DARLING and, however briefly, Collings
are now gaining the recognition they deserve,
along with CHARLES URBAN.
The list is perhaps over-inclusive (such can be
the nature of an encyclopaedia). To qualify for
Birt Acres was born in the USA to British parents,
who died during the American Civil War. He attended university in Paris, returned to travel and work
around remote parts of the USA before settling in
England. He made his first films in 1894 and early
the following year collaborated with R W PAUL to
make films, using a camera of their own design, for
which Acres applied for a patent on 27 May 1895.
After several private shows of his films, he gave the
first public screening in London on 21 March 1896,
followed by a royal command performance on 21
July 1896. He made at least three films on Brighton
beach in August 1896—among the first and similar
to the ones made by ESMÉ COLLINGS—which were
included in the Animatographe shows at the
VICTORIA HALL in King’s Road, Brighton.
Acres set up his own business, the Northern
Photographic Works at 45 Salisbury Road, Barnet,
Hertfordshire in April 1896 when he and Paul
ended their partnership and later moved it to
Nesbitt’s Alley, Barnet (see also JAMES WILLIAMSON).
In June 1898 he patented the Birtac, a 17.5mm film
system for amateur use, spurring CHARLES URBAN to
develop the Biokam with ALFRED DARLING.
Birt Acres was born 23 July 1854 in Richmond,
Virginia, USA and died 27 December 1918 in
Whitechapel, London
Richard Addinsell composed one of the most
popular pieces of film music of all time: the Warsaw
Concerto, used in the film Dangerous Moonlight
(1941). He wrote scores for over 40 films between
1932 and 1975, including Fire Over England (1937),
Gaslight (1940), A Diary for Timothy and Blithe
Spirit (both 1945) and Scrooge (1951). He composed original music for a television production of
Alice (in Wonderland) as early as 1946. He lived at 5
Chichester Terrace, Brighton from 1960 to 1977.
Richard Stewart Addinsell was born 13 January
1904 in London and died 14 November 1977 in
London
Elizabeth Allan made around 50 films on both sides
of the Atlantic, the first—in which she had second
billing— being The Rosary (1931). She appeared in
26 films in the first five years of the decade, taking
the lead in most of them. She was under contract to
MGM from 1933 but returned to England in 1938
after suing the studio for replacing her in The
Citadel. Later in her career she appeared on
television panel shows. She lived at Courtney Tye,
Courtney Terrace on the seafront at Hove.
inclusion, people must be dead and the list
excludes performers known only for television
work. Nor does it allow in those whose only
connection was a period spent at boarding
school. This latter restriction covers such
luminaries as the actors George Sanders, his
brother Tom Conway, Michael Hordern,
Beatrice Beckley and the actor-writer Miles
Malleson. Nonetheless, it would be possible to
go on adding to the list indefinitely. This lot
will have to do for now.
Cross-references to
other names, places
and films are shown
in SMALL CAPITALS.
Elizabeth Allan was born 9 April 1908 at
Skegness, Lincolnshire and died 27 July 1990 in
Hove
Chesney Allen, famous as the partner of Bud
Flanagan and a member of the Crazy Gang, made
12 comedy films in that context between 1932 and
1946, with a final 13th Crazy Gang film outing in
1960. Okay for Sound (1937), which had run
successfully on stage at the Brighton HIPPODROME
the previous year, is the only film on which he had a
writing credit. He and Flanagan also appeared in the
classic documentary Listen to Britain (1942). His
childhood home was at 21 Park Crescent Place,
Brighton.
William E Allen was born 5 April 1893 in
Brighton and died 13 November 1982 at Midhurst,
Sussex
Hylton Allen made his stage début in 1899 and
thereafter toured extensively in the United States
and South Africa between appearances in the West
End and on Broadway. His first film part, in Caesar
and Cleopatra, did not come until 1945 at the age of
65 and was uncredited. He was credited in the three
other films he made between then and 1951. The
son of a butcher and farmer, in early childhood he
lived at 24 Market Street. He was educated privately
in London before returning to join his family at 8
Clifton Terrace, Brighton. In later life he lived at
Haywards Heath.
Alfred Hylton Allen was born 25 October 1879 at
Pulborough, Sussex and died 6 February 1975 at
Cuckfield, West Sussex
Bobby Andrews appeared in SIDNEY MORGAN’s FIRES
(1922) for Progress Film Company at
Shoreham. He had previously made three films in
1920 and appeared in one more subsequently. He
was educated at Lewes, made his stage début in 1906
at the age of 11 and had many juvenile roles in the
West End. He went to the USA in 1911 and
appeared on stage in Chicago. He joined the Royal
Naval Air Service 1915-1918 and returned to the
stage to play character parts. He met Ivor Novello in
1916 and their relationship lasted for 35 years.
Robert Tobias Andrews was born 20 February
1895 in London and died 1976
OF INNOCENCE
1
2
3
4
1 Birt Acres
2 Elizabeth Allen
3 Chesney Allen
4 Bobby Andrews
5 Birtac camera
5
Robert Atkinson established his architectural reputation designing cinemas, his most accomplished
work being the REGENT CINEMA, Brighton (1921),
149
The People Williamson—Youens
2
1
influential film-makers in the first decade of the
cinema, and perhaps even pre-eminent among
them, given his contribution to the development of
narrative technique.
James A Williamson was born 8 November 1855
at Pathhead, Kirkaldy, Scotland and died 18 August
1933 at 593 Upper Richmond Road, Richmond,
Surrey
3
4
1 The Williamson
family outside Rose
Cottage 1902,
top: Alan, James and
Colin;
middle: Florence,
Betsy, Janet, Lilian;
bottom: Tom, Stuart
2 A rather scratchy
photograph of the
Williamson staff,
date unknown but
probably c1930
3 Anthony Woodruff
4 Bernard Youens
Lilian Williamson, third daughter of JAMES
WILLIAMSON, took the title role in her father’s film
The Little Match Seller (1902). She was later a
typist-clerk in the company office. She visited her
sister in the USA in 1912-13. She lived in Golders
Green, London. Last seen alive on 21 March 1938,
her body was found in the Thames off Prince’s
Wharf eight days later. She left nearly £4,800.
Lilian Williamson was born 29 August 1889 in
Hove and died 29 March 1938 in Bermondsey,
London
Stuart Williamson, the youngest child of JAMES
WILLIAMSON, appeared in two of his father’s films in
1903-1904 and in four films by DAVE AYLOTT in
1909. He joined brother Colin in the machinery
department of the family business and was a partner
with Tom in a Luton engineering firm.
Stuart Williamson was born 5 April 1893 in Hove
and died 1972 at Wokingham, Berkshire
Tom Williamson, the sixth child and third son of
JAMES WILLIAMSON. He had the lead part in Our
New Errand Boy (1905), appeared in his father’s
film The Orange Peel (1907) and with his brother
Stuart in the revived version of Two Naughty Boys
(1909), directed by DAVE AYLOTT, by which time
Tom was working as a clerk in the London office.
He worked at Automatic Film Printers Laboratories
and in 1931 joined Gevaert, the film stock
manufacturer in Harlesden, London. He was
president of Cinema Veterans (1903) in 1953.
Thomas Heaysman Williamson was born 30
April 1891 in Hove
William Edward Winton was a master printer and
bill poster in Shoreham who in 1908 began using a
former Congregational church in Church Street,
Shoreham for concerts and lectures. (The family
186
lived next door at 9 Church Street.) The premises
became known as Winton’s Hall. In 1910 he was
granted a cinematograph licence and ran moving
picture shows until 1914, when the lease passed to
Arthur Hodgins and the cinema was renamed the
STAR THEATRE. In 1883 Winton had put his business
as a ‘printer, stationer, newsagent, dealer in fancy
articles and tobacconist’ into voluntary liquidation
to resolve his debts but later obviously resumed
trading. He had rowed in the local regattas and held
his own regatta after the official town regatta. He is
described as the originator of the Shoreham
Carnival.
William Edward Winton was born 1852 in
Shoreham and died 8 November 1932 in Shoreham
Anthony Woodruff was a familiar face on
television from 1951 until the mid 1980s, including
a three-year stint on the Crossroads soap opera. He
was in half a dozen feature films, usually playing
‘respectable’ characters.
Anthony Woodruff was born 13 November 1918
in Brighton and died 17 January 1993 in London
Derrick Wynne was a film production manager who
became the head of Brighton Film Studios during its
most active period in the mid 1950s. He had a
production company, Wynne Productions, based at
the studio and was also on the board of RLT
Productions, for which he co-produced TAKE A
POWDER (1953). He lived at Ravenscourt, 2 Belmont,
Brighton at that time, then at 18 Brunswick Terrace,
Hove. After leaving the studio he settled in Seaford.
His first wife was Elizabeth Bloch.
Derrick Cecil Wynne was born 29 January 1921
and died 1999 at Eastbourne, Sussex
Bernard Youens is best remembered as gruff
northerner Stan Ogden in the television soap opera
Coronation Street from 1964 for almost 20 years
until a few months before his death. Early in his
career, as Bernard Graham, he appeared in three
films between 1947 and 1949 for the then
flourishing regional production company
Mancunian Films.
Bernard Arthur Popley was born 28 December
1914 in Hove and died 27 August 1984 in Salford,
Lancashire
The places
A selection of residences and film locations.
Adelaide Crescent, Hove
Penny Points to Paradise (1950) and Me Without
You (2001).
Albany Villas, Hove
36: the childhood home of the cricketer and film
actor Sir CHARLES AUBREY SMITH.
Albion Hill
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951). See also Ewart
Street, Islingword Road, Quebec Street.
Albion Street, Southwick
Shadow of Fear (1963).
The Picture House (later called the Plaza and the
NEW KINEMA) from 1914 to 1948, until gutted by
fire. Council flats are now on the site.
Bear Road
Loot (1970).
Belmont
2 ‘Ravenscourt’: home of film producer DERRICK
WYNNE when co-producing TAKE A POWDER (1953).
Bigwood Avenue, Hove
9: birthplace and lifelong home of film archivist
GRAHAM HEAD.
Blackrock Valley
The proposed site in 1925-26 for a British National
Film Studio (see pages 206-208).
Blatchington Road, Hove
The Gelignite Gang (1954).
Aldrington Basin, Portslade
Portslade gasworks in Battle of the V1 (1958).
P
Borough Street
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2007).
Alexandra Villas
13: the home of ESMÉ COLLINGS, to which he moved
from 59 Dyke Road.
Brighton Road, Clayton
JJack and Jill windmills in The Miller and the
Sweep (1898), Adventure in
the Hopfields (1954), Battle of
the V1 (1958) and The Black
Windmill (1974)
Ann Street
SSt Bartholomew’s Church in Heathen (2009).
Arundel Drive East, Saltdean
The final home of GEORGE ROBEY from 1953.
Arundel Street
24: rented by WILLIAM FRIESE GREENE as a family
home from 1905 to 1907 and the address on his
colour cinematography patent application in May
1905.
Arundel Terrace
6: the home of DOUGLAS BYNG from the early 1960s
to 1987.
7: the home of J HENSON INFIELD in the 1930s.
Bartholomews
Jigsaw (1962). The surrounding area is also seen.
1
Where streets have
been renumbered,
the current number
of the building is
used as the principal
reference.
z indicates that the
site is marked by a
plaque, the source as
named.
More residences are
identified in the
biographies in Part 7
indicates a film
location. See also
Part 5, Films: The
sound era for a list
of film locations.
2
Brighton Road, Shoreham
342: the COLISEUM cinema
from 1920 to 1941. Now the
site of the Adur Civic Centre.
Brunswick Square, Hove
30: the home of DAN
BENJAMIN, who owned the
PRINCE’S CINEMA in North Street, Brighton from
1935 to 1947.
58: the home of cinema exhibitor JAMES VAN KOERT
just after World War II.
Penny Points to Paradise (1950), Dirty Weekend
(1993).
Bungalow Town, Shoreham Beach
A development along the coastline, mainly
comprising chalets in Old Fort Road, many formed
by using one or more redundant railway carriages. It
was popular with thespians and music hall artistes.
The future screenwriter CHARLES BENNETT was born
here. See also Crescent Road, Old Fort Road.
1 Bartholomews as it
was in 1962 in
Jigsaw, when it went
down to the seafront,
as it should still have
done
2 Jill windmill in
1954 in Adventure in
the Hopfields
Burlington Street
z 25: the last home from 1948 of film and stage
comedian MAX MILLER, who died here in 1963,
marked by a British Music Hall Society plaque. (See
also 160 Marine Parade, New Road, Brighton and
Ashcroft in Kingston Lane, Shoreham.)
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Studios
The films factories of Brighton, Hove and Shoreham
There have been four main film studios in the
Brighton & Hove area. The first three were of
the ‘glasshouse’ type, built to allow in the
maximum of daylight in the days before
artificial lights were used. The fourth was in a
converted parish hall.
And then there is the little known story of
the one that, had it been built, would
undoubtedly have been the largest and most
important film studio in the whole country. It
was intended to put British film-making back
on the map. If only. . .
Film studios in Brighton & Hove
location
operational
company
St Ann’s Well Gardens
Furze Hill, Hove
1900-1903
GAS Films (George Albert Smith)
Williamson Kinematograph Works
Wilbury Villas, Hove
(Cambridge Grove)
1902-1910
1910-1912?
(James) Williamson & Co
Natural Colour Kinematograph Company
Shoreham Beach Film Studios
Crescent Road,
Shoreham Beach
1915-1916
1916-1918
1918-1922
Sealight Film Company
Olympic Kine Trading Company
Progress Film Company
Brighton Film Studios
St Nicholas Road, Brighton
1948-1966
Film Studios (Brighton)
St Ann’s Well Gardens
GEORGE ALBERT SMITH, who leased the pleasure
gardens between 1892 and 1904, started making
films around the turn of the year 1896-97. On the
map (overleaf) the gardens are to the north-west of
Furze Hill. Smith used the Pump House in the
grounds (‘The Chalybeate’ on the map) as his ‘film
works’ and at first built simple sets in the gardens.
The future film comedian TOM GREEN probably
began his connection with Smith as a set builder
and decorator. That may be him up the step ladder.
Hard to tell. Sets initially consisted of a painted
backcloth on a wooden frame. In The Old Maid’s
Valentine (1900) the message that the old maid
holds up in her living room is blown about by the
wind. In The Death of Poor Joe (1901) the
shadows of the nearby trees are stippled on the
snow covered garden gate and wall. Generally,
although clearly artificial, the backdrops are
competently executed.
1
In 1900 Smith signed a two-year exclusive
contract with Warwick Trading Company (WTC),
run by CHARLES URBAN. He built a small studio in
the grounds of St Ann’s Well Gardens with financial
support from Urban. On the evidence of Poor Joe,
which was made in March 1901, the studio was not
in regular use until after that date. It consisted of a
glasshouse over a stage measuring approximately 30
feet wide by 16 feet deep, with wooden doors
forming one end of the building. The stage apron
could be pulled forward between the doors.
In September 1900, the WTC catalogue
describes Smith as ‘Manager of the Brighton Film
Works of the Warwick Trading Company’.
Excursions into the immediate surroundings of
St Ann’s Well Gardens were rare in Smith’s films; he
preferred to shoot in studio conditions. However, As
Seen Through a Telescope (1900) was filmed just
outside the gardens, next to the Lodge in Furze Hill.
G A Smith left St Ann’s Well Gardens in August
1903 when he moved to Roman Crescent,
Southwick to work on the colour film project that
1 A simple ‘flat’ was
used for scenery
before the covered
studio was built
2 The rooftop set
that can be seen on
the stage of the shedlike studio was for
3 Mary Jane’s
Mishap (1903) when
Mary Jane—represented by a dummy
—shoots out of the
chimney. An
elaborate preparation
for a scene that lasts
12 seconds and in
other films would
have been done with
a scale model
2
3
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Cinema-by-Sea
Index
Where to find it. Key references are in bold
ABout de Souffle 80
‘Arry and ‘Arriet’s Evening
Out 108
Abba 45
ABC Cinema, Brighton see
Savoy
ABC Cinema, Hove 34, 39,
57, 189, 197
ABCcinemas 16, 170
ABCTelevision 171
Abel, David 137
Abel, Richard 209
Abela, Marisa 129
Abicair, Shirley 131
Abraham, Sara 128
Abrahams, J&F 57
Academy Awards 16, 154,
158, 172, 176
Academy Cinema 14, 16, 31,
33, 34, 38, 39, 41, 43, 63,
126, 133, 146, 165, 199
Academy Music Group 59
Academy Picture Palace
Company 189
Accident 158
Accord Productions 131
Ace Cinema 33, 56, 189
Ackermann, Hermann 29
Ackland, Joss 126, 136
Ackland, Rodney 127, 137
Acres, Birt 9, 75, 149, 172, 188
Acrobatic Tramps, The 99,
155
Actresses’ Franchise League 170
Adas Works 198
Addinsell, Richard 149, 192
Adelaide Crescent 130, 132,
191
Adelphi Films 130, 132
Adler, Larry 126
Admans, FE 69
admissions see cinemagoing
Adrian Troupe of Cyclists,
The 93
Adur Civic Centre 47, 191
advance booking 13
Advance Productions 132
Adventure in the Hopfields
118, 173
Adventures of Jane, The 56,
113, 118, 193, 195, 205
Adventures of Sir Francis
Drake 171
Ad-Visors 189
Affair of Honour, An 103
Affairs of a Rogue 124
Affinty Sutton 58
After Dark, or The Police man
and His Lantern 97
After Many Days 111, 152, 164
After the Fancy Dress Ball 106
Aigle a Deux Têtes, L’ 57
Ainsworth, Harrison 11
Ainsworth, R H 59
Akehurst, Kevin 128, 129
Akokhia, Sarah 127
Aladdin and the Wonderful
Lamp 92
Albany Villas 177, 191
Albion Hill 128
Albion Hotel 176
Albion Street, Southwick 191
Aldrich,Wilfred 71
Aldrington Basin 191
Cinema-by-Sea
Alexander, John 55
Alexandra Villas 191
Alfred Darling &Sons 188
Alfriston 118
Alhambra Music Hall, London
10
Alhambra Opera House and
Music Hall, Brighton 30, 64,
77, 125, 167
Alias John Preston 118, 205
Alice 149
Alice, Through the
Wonderglass 139
Alive onSaturday 118, 170, 205
All Men are Liars 111
All the Fun of the Fair 92
All the Right Noises 118
All’s Well that Ends Well 103
Allan, Elizabeth 129, 149, 170,
192
Allchin, Harry 67
Allen Arms 56
Allen, Chesney 149, 198
Allen, Hylton 149
Allen, Irwin 151
Allen, Jack 120
Allen, Leonard 62
Allen, Woody 122
Alliance Film Company 158
Allister, Ray 196, 200, 210
Ally Sloper 90
Ally Sloper Batting 91
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 11
Alman, Ewan 121
Alphabetic 139
Altman, John 176
Amateur Bill Sykes, An 99
Amazons’ March and
Evolutions, The 97
Ambler, Eric 138
Ambler, Joss 126
Ambler, Philip 131
Ambleton Delight 118, 195
American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 181,
211
American Mutoscope &
Biograph 64, 83, 84
And Darren 119
And Then He Woke Up 108,
176
And When Did You Last See
Your Father? 119, 195
Anderson, David 121
Anderson, Rona 125
Anderson, Samuel 127
Andrew and Jeremy Get
Married 119
Andrews, Bobby 149
Andrews, Mark 129, 133
Angel Plaza, Miguel 130
Angel Productions 122
Angers, Avril 119
Angler’s Dream, The 105
Anglo-Amalgamated Film
Distributors 124, 126
Anglo-American Film
Corporation 172
Angus, Thongs and Perfect
Snogging 119, 191, 195, 199
Animal and Bird Studies 106
Animated Clown Portrait 90
Animated portrait—Miss
Marie Lloyd 90
Animatographe 10, 27-28, 29,
74, 172, 195
Ann Street 191
Anna Karenina 138
Another of the Same 92
Anxious Foster Mother, An 107
Apex Film Distributors 126,
127, 135
Apparently 139
Apple Final Cut 115
APT Films 126
Aqua Film Productions 127
Aquarium 9,30, 44, 109, 132,
177, 195
Arcadia Cinema 34, 39,41, 44,
176, 190, 195, 197
Archer Street Productions 119
Archie 139
Archway Film Distributors 153
Are You There? 79, 96, 156
Aristocats, The 58
Armchair Theatre 171
Armitage, Duncan 118
Army Kinema Corps 56
Army Kinematograph Service
52
Arnatt, John 134
Arnold, Ben 127
Around the Swings on a Bank
Holiday 93
Around the World in 80 Days
64, 164
ARP 139
Arriflex 115
Arrival and Departure of a
Train at Hove 75, 76, 88
Arroseur arrosé, L’ 9, 75, 87, 91
art deco 14
art:house 139
Arundel Drive East 191
Arundel Street 143, 162, 191
Arundel Terrace 191
As Seen Through a Telescope
78, 93, 178, 202
Ash, Leslie 132
Asher, Jack 122, 133, 136
Asher, Jane 118
Ashes and Sand 114, 119, 195
Ashwell, H Whalley 52
Askem, Matt 136
Askwith, Robin 125
Aspel, Michael 196
Asquith, Anthony 136, 158
Associated Artists Productions
118
Associated British Cinemas
(ABC) 33, 46, 57, 71, 189
Associated British Film
Distributors 134
Associated British Pathé 34
Associated British Picture Corporation 34, 121, 161, 167
Associated Communica tions
Corporation 56
Astaire, Fred 71, 137
Astor Pictures Corporation 125
Astoria Cinema 31, 33, 34,
38, 39,40, 44, 45, 55, 165,
168, 170, 174, 189, 194
Astra-National Productions
171, 179
Asylum of the Insane 125
At Brighton Beach 101
At Last! That Awful Tooth 97
Atherton, Howard 119
Atkinson, Robert 52, 68, 149
ATM 139
Attack on a Chinese Mission
—Blue Jackets to the Rescue
11, 60, 74, 78-79, 94, 184,
199
Attenborough Centre for the
Creative Arts 57
Attenborough, Richard 14, 57,
67, 113, 118, 121, 127, 129,
131, 138
Attfield, Ian 131
Attractive Cinema (Brighton) 58
Atwell, Hayley 122
Aumont, Jean-Pierre 125
Auntie’s Antics 86, 112
Aurora Film Company 161,
187, 195, 197, 199
Autochrome 145
autostereoscopy 38
Autry, Gene 46
Avalon Motion Pictures 120
Avengers, The 171
Aviator Films 124
Awde, Louis Robert 73
AWH sound system 34
Awkward Sign Writer 89
Ayah’s Revenge, The 106, 184
Ayles, Allen 210
Aylmer, Felix 137
Aylott, Dave 81, 113, 150, 154,
156, 164, 176, 169, 176, 186
Aylott, Eric 150
Aylward, Derek 120
Babes in the Wood and Robin
Hood 29, 73, 196
Baby and the Ape, The 101
Baby Cow Productions 124
Baby in a Pram 97
Back Row Brighton 210
Bacon, Max 135
Bad Cigar, A 93
Baddeley, Hermione 121
Badger, Liam 119
BAFTA Film Awards 16, 126
Bagnold, Enid 122
Baillieu, Bill 209
Baird, John Logie 153, 161, 188
Baird, Roy 132
Baker and the Sweep, The 90
Baker, Joseph 119, 125
Baker, Robert S 134
Baker, Stanley 127, 133, 160
Balcon, Michael 67, 138, 156
Baldwin, Stanley 206
Ballin, Debbie 135
balloon, hot-air 177
Band of Cameroon High lan
ders on the West Pier 106
Banister, Frederick Dale 199
Bank Holiday 137
Bank Holiday at the Dyke 91
bankruptcy 47, 50, 58, 61, 125
Banks, Leslie 15, 138
Barabbas 69
Barclay, Linda 136
Bardot, Brigitte 157
Barker, Howard 129
Barker, Nigel 132
Barker, Will 83
Barlow, James 136
Barnes, John 81, 209
Barnes, Sally 150
Barnet 9, 188
Barnett, Alfred 61, 159
Barnett, Cameron 121
Barnum’s Procession 91
Barnyard Pets 109
Barr, Patrick 125
Barrasford, Maud 50, 150, 196
Barrasford, Tom 49, 51, 150, 196
Barratt, Rue 121
Barrère, Adrien 84
Barrett, Ray 127
Barrett,William Fletcher 177
Barrington, Randolph 121
Barry, Jason 130
Bartholomews 191
Bartlett, Nick 132
Bass Leisure 46
Bass, Alfie 123, 127
Batchelor, Megan 123
Bates, F Stanley 70
Bath Chronicle 210
Bathers on the Beach at
Brighton 87
Battle of the Somme 182
Battle of the V1 70, 119, 191,
193, 198
Baxter, Lee 132
Bay-Andersen, Eric 127
Bayes, Walter 68
Bayley, Blanche 151
Bayley, Eva 94, 150
Bayley, Florence 151
Bayley, Laura 77, 81, 89, 92,
94, 95, 98, 125, 150, 177,
192, 196
Bayly, Stephen 133
Bayly/Paré Productions 133
BBC 16, 60, 119, 174, 183,
184, 197
BBC Films 121, 137
BBC4 135
BBC Drama Repertory
Company 165, 175
BBC Television 151, 152, 155,
161, 164, 166, 171, 172, 173,
175, 176, 177, 180
Be My Guest 119, 155, 197
Beachy Head 132, 133, 134
Beales, Daniel 120
Bear Road 129,176, 191
Beat the Devil 154
Beatles, The 59
Beau Brummell 137
Beckinsale, Samantha 132
Beckley, Beatrice 125
Bed Sitting Room, The 166
Bedding, Thomas 146
Beecham, Frederick 73
Behind the News 47
Behrens, Edward Berrington
207
Bell &Howell 60
Bell, Elliot 123
Bell, L&A 48
Bell, Tom 118, 136
Bell, VAnessa 184
Bellamy, George 151, 198
Belles of St Trinian’s, The 170
Bellringer, Nathan 121
Belmont 191
Belmont, Lara 119
Belvedere Club and Tea
Rooms 73
213
Index
Belvoir Fruit Farms 60
Ben Hur 46
Benet, Vicki 172
Benett, Vere Fane 151
Benett-Stanford, John 151, 178
Bening, Annette 133
Benjamin, Dan 67, 151, 191
Bennett, Charles 151, 192
Bennett, Hywel 129
Bennett, Tom 121
Bent, Emma E E 157
Bentley, John 125
Berges, Paul Mayeda 119
Berkeley-Steele, Genevieve 120
Berlin Film Festival 133
Berman, Pandro S 137
Bernhardt, Curtis 137
Bernstein, Cecil 57
Bernstein, Sidney 57
Berry, Darren 123, 135
Bespoke Overcoat, The 154
Best, Edna 151, 197, 198
Beth 139
Bettany, Paul 123, 136
Between the Silence 120
Bevan, Faith 151
Bevan, Tim 134, 136
Beverley, Samuel 55
Beyfus, George 51, 73, 152
BFI Reuben Library 212
BFI Screenonline 211
BHASVIC 124, 131
Biches, Les 69
Bicycle Polo 96
Bicycle Rider 87
Bicycle Thieves 38, 46, 52
bicycling prints 58
Big Apple 70
Big Beach Boutique II 136
Big Cat Productions 128, 129
Big Finish, The 120
Big Hangover, The 44
Big Swallow, The 79, 96, 156,
200
Big Switch, The (Strip Poker)
129, 196, 198, 198, 199
Big Waves at Brighton 109
Bigview Productions 119, 125
Bigwood Avenue 165, 191
Bijou Electric Empire,
Brighton 34, 46, 66, 196
Bijou Electric Empire,
Shoreham 34, 46, 190, 194
Bijou Orchestra 50
Bijou Select Palace 31, 34, 49,
66
Bikel, Theodore 136
Bill Kenwright Films 124
Bill Poster’s Revenge, The 95
Billy Liar 124
bingo 45, 56, 58, 51, 53, 61,
62, 70, 70, 74
Biocolor Picture Theatres 43,
146, 168, 189
Biocolour 146, 161, 187
Biograph see American
Mutoscope & Biograph
Biokam camera 150, 157
Bioptics 188, 189
Bioschemes 146, 187
Bioscope 142
Bioscope, The 211
Bioscope Days 212
Bio-Tableaux 57
Birch, Eugenius 44
Birch, Harry 144
Bird Feeder 139
Birtac camera 149
Birth of a Nation 70
Birth of Flowers 43
Bishop, Kevin 120
Biziou, Peter 133
Black Cat Bingo Club 74
Black Narcissus 176, 184
Black Rock 42, 121, 122, 191
Black Rock Films 135
214
Black Sheep, The 111
Black Windmill, The 120
Black, Edward 137, 138
Blackburn, Amy 131
Blackburn, Douglas 177
Blackburn, Lancashire 10
blacklist, Hollywood 133
Blackmail 60, 151
Blackmore, Peter 129
Blackpool 158, 208
Blacksmiths at Work 91
Blackstone Group 47
Blagden, Bob 119
Blake, Jerome 120
Blake, Sexton 153, 167
Blatchington Hall 46
Blatchington Road 125, 191
blind booking 11, 13, 33
Blind Spot, The 120, 196, 198
Blithe Spirit 149
Bloch, George 49, 60, 66, 152,
156
block booking 13, 33, 116
Blue Circle cement works 127
Blue Flash Cinema Company
47, 189
Blue Halls 66, 156, 189, 190
Blue Wheel, The 139
Blue, Kitty 124
Bluebell Railway 133
Blunt, Emily 136
Blu-ray Disc 16, 41
Bluto, Tony 133
Board of Trade 206, 207, 208
Boat that Rocked, The 120
Bobby’s Birthday 106
Bodhisattva Buddhist Centre
134
Boer War 44, 80
Bogarde, Dirk 122, 131
Bogarde, Dirk 61
Bogdanovich, Peter 44
Bogdanski, Hagen 136
Bolam, James 124
Bolter, Samantha 118
Bomber 121
bombs 62, 71
Bond, Alan 72
Bond, Derek 133
Bonham Carter, Helena 134
Booth, Anthony 133
Booth, Walter R 109, 110,
152, 163
Boots 197
Borehamwood 14
Boris Films 121
Borough Street 119, 191
Borzage, Frank 153
Bosio, Angélique 129
Boswell House College 170
Bottomley, Horatio 168
Boulting, John 15, 69, 114,
121, 138, 152
Boulting, Roy 15, 69, 114,
121, 138, 152, 154
Bouly, Léon 9
Boundary Road 129
Bouwmeester, Theo 109, 161
Bowen, Mark 129
Box, Betty 129
Box, Frederick G 51, 190
Box, Muriel 137
Box, Sydney 137
Boxall, Edwin 47
Boy and the Convict, The
108, 141, 194
Boy’s Own Paper 11
Boyask, Ross 123, 125, 128,
129, 131, 135, 136
Boyd, Don 119
Boyd, Kate 119
Boys Under Pier 87
Boys Will be Boys 102
Boyz Gone Bad 139
Braban, Harvey 152
Braband, Jan 132
Braden, Bernard 137
Bradford, Ernie 133
Bradshaw, Mrs AM 53
Bradshaw, Peter 129
Bradshaw, W T 53, 152, 190
Braithwaite, PH 66
Branagh, Kenneth 120
Brangwyn estate 122
Bratt, Harald 130
Brave Young Men 139
Braybon, TJ 43
Breaks, Sebastian 120
Breathe 121
Breen, Joseph I 137
Brenon, Robert 133
Brent Walker 47, 132
Bresslaw, Bernard 122
Brickwell & Bullock 66
Bridges, Robert 206
Briffett, Jim 128
Brigand’s Daughter, The 106
Briggs, George 52
Brighton (1899) 92
Brighton (1956) 60, 139
Brighton (2011) 139
Brighton Alhambra 64
Brighton & County Film
Company 43, 86, 110, 187
Brighton & Hove Albion 137
Brighton & Hove City Council
46, 57, 63
Brighton & Hove Gazette 210
Brighton & Hove Guardian 28
Brighton & Hove Herald 36
Brighton and Shoreham
Building Society 152
Brighton Aquarium 109, 179
Brighton Aquarium see
Aquarium, Sealife Centre
Brighton Borough Council/
Corporation 37, 40, 46, 50,
52, 80, 121 168, 175, 207
Brighton Centre 63, 66, 132,
194
Brighton: Children on the
Sands 90
Brighton College of Art 68,
180
Brighton Cooperative Society
44
Brighton Corporation see
Brighton Borough Council/
Corporation
Brighton Corporation Waterworks 60
Brighton—Die Sinfonie der
Großstadt 139
Brighton Film Academy 212
Brighton Film Festival 63, 119
Brighton Film School 205,
212
Brighton Film Studios 15,
113, 116, 118, 119, 122, 125,
126, 127, 130, 132, 133, 134,
135, 155, 169, 187, 188, 192,
198, 205
Brighton Film Theatre 11, 31,
34, 38, 41, 53, 67, 70, 74, 153
Brighton Fire 93
Brighton Front on a Bank
Holiday 87
Brighton Gazette [& Sussex
Telegraph] 28, 29, 46, 210
Brighton General Hospital 193
Brighton Grammar School 159
Brighton Hammam Turkish
Baths 43
Brighton Herald 36
Brighton History Centre 212
Brighton Hove and Sussex
Sixth Form College see
BHASVIC
Brighton Labour Club 44, 197
Brighton Little Theatre 175, 179
Brighton Marina 16, 32, 42,
47, 118, 120, 135
Brighton Media Centre 196
Brighton Mystery, The 112
Brighton on a Bank Holiday 87
Brighton Parkour 139
Brighton Parks Department
165
Brighton Police 128, 195
Brighton Queen, The 95
Brighton Repertory Company
166
Brighton Road, Clayton 191
Brighton Road, Shoreham 191
Brighton Rock (1947) 71,
113, 114, 121, 152, 174, 194,
195, 197, 198
Brighton Rock (2010) 121
Brighton Rock (book) 121
Brighton Rock Picture Book,
The 121
‘Brighton school’ 10, 125, 175,
209
Brighton School of Art 159
Brighton Sea-going Car 88
Brighton station 118, 121,
123, 126, 131, 132, 134, 197
Brighton Strangler, The 113,
137
Brighton Studios 118
Brighton: The Esplanade 90
Brighton: The Launch of the
Skylark 90
Brighton: The Lower
Esplanade 90
Brighton Trades and Labour
Club 44
Brighton West Pier, The Rise
and Fall 139
Brighton Wok: The Legend of
Ganja Boxing 121
Brighton Youth Centre 193
Brightonia Film Com pany
13, 43, 86, 110, 159, 169,
173, 187
BrightonWorkhouse 193
Brimson, Eddy 123
Bristol Mercury 210
Britannia Films 127
British & Colonial Kinematograph Company 150
British Acoustic Films (BAF)
34, 48, 50, 69
British Association of Film
Directors 171
British Board of Film Censors
(BBFC) 13, 37, 55, 175
British Broadcasting Corporation see BBC
British Challenge Glazing
Company 46
British Cinecolor 157
British Empire Exhibition 207
British Film Academy 178
British Film Institute 16, 68,
145, 165, 166, 171, 174 see
also BFI and National Film
and Television Archive
British Film Week 174
British Film Year 41
British International Pictures
151, 166
British Lion Film Corporation
15, 34, 118, 127, 128, 131,
137, 166
British Music Hall Society 192
British National Film League
206
British National Film Studios
168, 191, 206-208
British National Films 138
British Screen 130, 133
British Soldiers 106
British Thomson-Houston
(BTH) 34, 52, 61, 64, 70
Broadbent, Jim 119, 133, 136
Broadway Productions 135
Brocksopp, Thomas 152, 193
Broken Melody, The 30, 59,
75, 87, 125
Bromet, M 190
Bromhead, AC 155
Bromige, Frederick E 42, 57
Bron, Eleanor 136
Brook, Faith 138
Brookes, Ray 125
Brook-Jones, Elwyn 133
Brooks, Adam 136
Brooks, Ray 177
Brown Goes to Mother 106
Brown, Cameron 120
Brown, Dan 123
Brown, Elizabeth 119, 125
Brown, Geoff 163
Brown, Joe, & The Bruvvers 56
Brown, Peter 119
Brown, Robert 124
Brown, Theodore 181
Brown, Tim 210
Brown’s Half Holiday 104
Browne, Irene 152
Browning, Tod 165
Brunel, Adrian 152, 155, 194
Brunswick Square 123, 125,
132, 191
Brunswick Terrace 191
Bryan, Dora 128, 129, 130,
131, 136
Bryan, Dora 196
Brydon, Rob 130
BSkyB 130
Buchanan, Jack 55, 153, 171
Buckley, Lord Justice 146
Buckley, Mrs RH 43
Builder of Bridges, The 177
Building a Chicken House 110
Bull, Peter 138
Bullock, Ray, Jr 120
Bully and the Recruit, The 107
Bungalow Town 151, 168,
191, 204
Burden of Proof, The 136
Burden, Hugh 126
Burford, Roger 137
Burger King 41, 68, 196
Burgess, Monty 127
Burlesque of Popular
Composers 99
Burlington Street 170, 192
Burnett, Lucas 127
Burnham, Lord 206
Burns Cooke, Caroline 133
Burtenshaw, DE 52
Burton, Langhorne 125, 153
Burton, Richard 136
Butcher’s Film Service 46, 134
Butland, Riki 133
Butler, Josephine 127
Butt, Alfred 158
Butterworth, Peter 118
Button, Matthew 135
Bwana Devil 38
By Berwin Banks 111
Byford-Winter, Laura 121
Byford-Winter, Samson 121
Byng, Douglas 153, 191
Byng, Field Marshall Viscount,
of Vimy 168
Byrne, Eddie 122
Byrne, Miles 48, 68, 74, 153,
160
Byron, Kathleen 130
Byways of Byron 52, 93, 109
cable television 16, 41
Caburn Road 178, 192
Caine, Michael 70, 120, 130,
176
Cakewalk, The 97, 169
Callan 58
Callbox Mystery, The 170
Calley, John 123
Calthrop, Donald 60
Calvert, Louis 153
Cinema-by-Sea
Index
Calvert, Phyllis 131
Cambridge Grove 12, 113,
192, 202-203
Cameron, Basil, Orchestra 69
Can You Keep It Up for a
Week? 56
Candy Bar cafe 120
Cannes Film Festival 119, 125,
130
Cannon Cinema 31, 34, 47, 72
Cannon Place 195
Canterbury Hall 125
Canterbury Tale, A 176
Capital & Provincial News
Theatres 34, 47, 197
Capra, Franl 172
Capron, Brian 118
Captain Clives 125, 154, 195,
198, 199
Captain Clives and his Clever
Dog Tiger 99, 154, 194
Carden, Alfred 49, 58
Carder, Timothy 210
Carlile, W 88
Carlson, Elizabeth 119
Carlton Film Company 86,
154, 172, 187, 204
Carlton Hill 192
Carlton Terrace 192
Carmen Jones 43
Carmichael, Ian 15, 126
Carnaby International 123
Carne, Judy 118
Carnival Films 136
Carol, Joan 126
Carousel 43
Carpenter, Paul 136
Carr, Brendan 135
Carrington, Anna 118
Carry On at your Convenience
114, 122
Carry On films 160, 196, 199
Carry On Girls 122
Carson, John 134
Carstairs, John Paddy 131
Cart Horse Parade 107
Carter, Winifred 138
cartoon cinemas 47
Casablanca 41
Casey, Terance 153, 174
Casino Royale 151
Cassandra’s Dream 122
Cassavetti, Nick 130
Cassell, Jean-Pierre 131
Cast a DarkShadow 122
Castle in the Air 169
Castle, John 129
Cat Studies 106
Cavalcade 152
Cavalcanti, Alberto 124
Cavendish Court 62, 198
CC Lab 136
censorship 37, 55, 70
Centre National de la Cinématographie 116, 212
Centurion Road 192, 205
Chabrol, Claude 68
Chadha, Gurinda 119
Chadwick, BS 205
Chained for Life 165
Chalk Garden, The 122, 154,
158
Challis, Christopher 125, 136
Chamberlain, Joseph 95
Champion, The 70
Champneys, Walpole 68
Chance Meeting 136
Chance of Rain 139
Chancellor of the Exchequer 13
Chanctonbury Road 192
Channel Four Films 136
Channon, Jack 52, 153, 190
Chapman, Edward 138
Chappell, F, & Sons 60
Chard, George Henry 29
Chard’s Vitagraph 10, 29, 49
Cinema-by-Sea
charity levy 36
Charles II 156, 199
Charles Reynolds Productions
127
Charles Urban Trading
Company 188
Charles, Emile 125
Charlesworth, Ian 123
Charrington, Arthur 86, 154,
168, 169, 173
Charrington, Harry 127
Chart, Jack 81, 107, 154, 194
Charter Film Productions 121
Charter Films 152
Charters and Caldicott 138
Chasin, Liza 136
Chasing Heaven 139
Cheating the Sweep 106
Chelsea Life 170
Champagne Charlie 180
Chennell, VR 53, 190
Cherries 60
Cherry Pink and Apple
Blossom White 64
Chesham Place 192
Chester Terrace 192
Chevalier, Albert 64
Cheyney, Peter 138
Chibnall Steve 121
Chibnall, Steve 121, 210
Chichester Festival Theatre 154
Chichester Terrace 132, 163,
192
Children Bathing on Hove
Beach 91
Children Galore 122
Children of Gibeon, The 111,
158
Children On The Beach 87
Children Paddling 87
Children Paddling at the
Seaside 75, 88
Children’s Film Founda tion
114, 118, 122, 139
Chilton, Charles 131
Chipper, AB 46
Chisholm, Nigel 135
Choice Bouquets 109
Choo, Maye 134
Choosing the Wallpaper 107
Christie, Linford 124
Church Road 80, 113, 192
Church Street, Brighton 114,
192
Church Street, Shoreham 192
Churchill Square 144, 194
Cinderella and the Fairy
Godmother 90
CineCity 116
Cinema and Television
Benevolent Fund 173
cinema clubs 56, 67
Cinema Museum 165
Cinema of Transgression 129
Cinema Theatre Association
197
Cinema-de-Luxe 31, 33, 34,
39,40,41, 46, 189, 197
cinemagoing 15, 16, 208 and
passim
Cinemascope 38, 43, 48, 52,
56, 64, 69, 70
Cinémathèque Française 158
Cinematic Gorillas 127
Cinematograph Act 1909 35, 37
Cinematograph Exhibitors
Association (CEA) 11, 37,
44, 51, 114, 151, 167, 172,
207
Cinematograph Films Act
1927 14, 15, 86, 208
Cinematograph Films Act
1938 15, 208
Cinematograph Fund 36
Cinématographe 9, 29, 172
Cinephone 34, 60
Cineplex Odeon 47
Cinerama 60
Cines 84, 85, 185, 188
Cinescene 31, 33, 41, 67, 132,
190
Cinetour 35
Cineworld 16, 34, 47, 197
Cinographoscope 10, 29, 60,
197
Cinven 63
Circuits Management Asso
cia tion (CMA) 69, 189, 190
Circular Panorama of
Brighton Front 95
circulation of the blood 131
Circus 123, 194
Circus Pictures 123
Citadel, The 149
City of Dreamers 123
City Screen 53
Citygrove Leisure 42
Clair, Mavis 154
Clair, René 33
Clancy, Lara 135
Clare, Mary 127
Clarence House School 167
Clarendon Film Company 172
Clarendon Mansions 194
Clarges Hotel 122
Clark, Alistair 129
Clarke, Frank 125
Clarke, William 72
Classic Cinema, Lewes Road
34, 56
Classic Cinema, Western Road
34,41, 43-44, 56, 200
Classic Cinemas 52, 174, 189
classification see censorship
Clay, Reginald 146
Clay, Thomas 130
Clayton & Black 49, 52
Clayton, Alastair 127, 136
Clayton, Charles E 49, 52
Clayton, Jack 154
Clayton, Simon 127, 136
Cleland, John 124
Clement, Dick 136
Clements, Ivan Francis 127
Clements, John 131, 154, 172,
198
Clever and Comic Cycle Act
95, 167
Clifton, Edward 36
Clifton Hill 136, 192
Clifton Road 136
Clifton Terrace 169, 192
Clock Tower 15, 114, 120,
136, 197
Close Quarters, with a Notion
of the Motion of the Ocean
99
Close, Ivy 154
Clough, Brian 137
Clouzot, Henri-Georges 37
Clown 90
Clown Barber, The 91
Clown Cricketers 91
Clown’s Telegram, The 103
Cobbold, Charles 99, 154, 197
Cobbold, John 99, 154, 197
Cocoanuts, The 53
Coe, Brian 210
Cohen, Betsy 51
Cohen, Danny 120
Cohen, Joseph 73, 155, 164,
192, 198
Cohen, Lewis 50
Cohen, Robert 129
Cole, George 128
Cole, Michael 125
Colebrook Road 165, 192
Coleby, Nicola 210
Colin, Jean 155
Colin, Sid 131
Coliseum Cinema, Brighton
34, 58
Coliseum Cinema, Shore ham
34, 47, 61, 190, 191
Coliseum Theatre 49, 196
Collings, Esmé 10, 11, 29, 75,
82, 116, 125, 149, 155, 157,
190, 191, 193, 196, 200
Collings, James White 155
Collings, Keturah 155
Collins, Alf 102, 155
Collins, Joan 128
colour 141-146
Coltrane, Robbie 125, 130
Columbia Pictures Corporation
119, 123, 124, 125, 136, 137
Columbia Pictures Television
164
Colver, Andrew 127
Come Play with Me 123
Comedian and the Flypaper,
The 97, 169
Comfort, Lance 119, 126, 155,
167
Comic Barber 88
Comic Cuts 11
Comic Face 76, 88
Comic Scene 87
Comic Shaving 76, 88
comic strips 11
Commission du Cinéma d’Art
et Essai 116
Complete Index to World
Film 211
Compton Avenue 192
Compton cinema organ 46, 57
Con Man, The 128
Concert for Bangladesh 43
Confugium Film 127
Congrès International des
Editeurs de Film 13, 33, 83
Conjuror, The 93
Conley, Brian 123
Connery, Sean 127, 176
Connor, Kenneth 122
Conquest, Arthur 156, 163,
168, 204
Conrad, Jess 125, 128
Conran and Partners 58
Conservative Party
Conference 132
Constable 027 139
Constable, Ernest Edward 73
Constant Nymph, The 155
Continental Commerce
Company 187
Continental, The 113
Continentale Cinema 34, 37,
38, 41, 48, 153, 160, 190, 199
Contraband Love 170
Conversation with Yourself 139
Conversations with Dead Men
123
Convict Films 121
Conyers, Darcy 131
Coogan, Steve 123
Cook, Chris 132
Cook, Miles 132
Cook, Norman 119, 123
Cooke & Tulk 46
Cooke, Enver & Tulk 66
Coombs, Amber 126
Cooney, Ray 131
Cooper, Wilkie 128
Cooperative Food 55, 194
Cooperatove Film Service of
America 83
Coppola, Lucia 123
Coral Greyhound Stadium
135, 196
Coral Social Club 46
Corcoran, Kit 132
Cornelius, Henry 125
Cornford, Ernie 156, 194
Cornford Bros 46
Coronation Cinema 14, 31,
33, 34, 41, 49, 60, 67, 156,
158, 193, 196
Coronation of Their Majesties
King Edward VII and
Queen Alexandria 98
Coronation Street 129, 167, 186
Corsican Brothers, The 90, 177
Cosgrove, Ellen 123
Cosh Boy 58
Cosy Nook 41, 49, 60, 165, 194
Cotter, Paul 121
Cotton, Wilfred 58
Coull, Simon 127
Countryman’s Day in Town,
A 106
County Cinemas 60
Court Cinema, Brighton 10,
31, 33, 34, 39, 41, 49, 59,
150, 150, 190, 196
Court Kinema, Shoreham 34,
72-73
Court, Hazel 126
Courtney Terrace 169, 192
Courtship Under Difficulties
93, 184
Cowan, Maurice 131, 133
Cox, Jack 118, 131, 138
Craig, Hilton 118, 134
Cranfield Cinemas 168
Cranham, Kenneth 136
Crawford, Anne 127, 138
Crazy Gang 149
crazy golf 195
Crazy People 132
Creative Management Agency
176
Crédit Lyonnaise 47
Cregan 139
Crescent Road,Shoreham 192
Cressall, Maud 125, 156
Cresswell 133
Cresswell, John 122, 118
Cresswell, Luke 46
Crest Film Productions 187,
205
Crewe, Bertie 42
Cricket 91
cricket, test 177
Cricks & Martin 150
Cricks & Sharp 83
Cricks, George 83
Crisp, Donald 154
Crist, Judith 205
Croizon, Frederic 121
Cromie, Robert 60
Cromwell Road 80, 114
Crosby, Bing 62, 113
Cross, Eric 123
Crossan, Denis 130
Crossed Lines 139
Crossed Words 139
Crowds at Brighton 87
Crowhurst, Harry 156, 176,
188, 200
Crown, J L 49, 65, 156, 193
Cryptic Coloration 120
Crystal Room 59
Crunch, The 139
Cuckoo in the Nest 62
Cullimore, Alan 132
Cummins, Peggy 127
Cunliffe-Lister, Philip 207
Cup Final Mystery, The 170
Curbishley, Bill 132
curfew, seafront 34, 64, 65
Curry, Tim 132
Curse of Frankenstein, The 166
Curtis, Jamess 13
Curtis, Richard 120, 134
Curtis, Tony 134
Curtiz, Michael 151
Curzon Kinema 33, 34, 38, 39,
41, 50-52, 58, 73, 86, 152,
165, 170, 172, 189, 190, 200
Cutts, Graham 156, 158, 159,
184
Cybex Film Productions 125
Cycle Boat 90
215
Index
Cycle Parade 91
Cyclist Scouts in Action 96
D’Almayne, Maud 150
Da Vinci Code, The 123, 198
Daddy Long-Legs 76, 88, 113,
195
Dade, Stephen 137
Daily Express 207
Daily Mirror 118
Daily News 210
Daily Telegraph 206
Dakota Films 130
Dalby, Amy 135
Dalton, Sam 79, 96, 97, 125,
156, 199
Damned United, The 137
Dance of Shiva 139
Dance, Charles 124
Daneman, Paul 131
Dangerous Moonlight 149, 170
Daniels, Phil 132
Danum, Richard J 125
Danvers, Johnny 156, 175, 176
Danziger Productions 118
Daponte, Demetre 156
Dark Man, The 123, 195
Darkwood Manor 123
Darling, Alfred 10, 11, 75,
125, 142, 149, 155, 157, 177,
184, 192 193, 198
Dash for Help, A 108
Davenport, Nigel 136
David Hannay Productions 135
Davidson, William Norman
Lascelles 59, 81, 143, 144,
146, 157, 163, 165, 173, 192,
196, 198, 200
Davies, Alan 119
Davies, Betty Ann 118
Davies, Karl 123
Davis, Philip 121
Dawson, Zara 121
Day at Brighton, A 102, 155
Day at the Races, A 163
Day in Brighton, A 139
Day in Camp with the
Volunteers, A 99
Day on His Own, A 105
Day the Earth Caught Fire,
The 137, 197
Day, Ernest 129
Day, Harry 207
Day, Jill 157
Day, Maximilian 133
Day, Will 158
Day’s Holiday, A 107
Dayton, Lewis 158
DCS Nilsson & Partner 132
de Caro, Mr 43
de Frece, Walter 59, 158, 176
de Freece, J 65
De La Warr Pavilion 42
de Mille, William C 172
de Winton, Alice 125, 158
Deakin, Julia 124
Dean Court Road 118, 193
Dean, Kenneth AG 35
Dean, Syd, & His Band 128
Dear Boys Home for the
Holidays, The 102
Death of Poor Joe, The 95,
201
Deer, Mrs AWL 51, 190
Deighton, Len 131
Delhi Durbah 12, 145
Dell, Jeffrey 123
Dempsey, Cheryl 124
Dempster, Austin 129
Dench, Judi 126
Denham Studios 62
Denison, Michael 138
Denman & Matthews 44, 48,
199
Denman Picture Houses 168
Denmark Villas 125, 180, 193
216
Dennis, Simon 123
Denos, William 73
Dent, David 130
Derby Day 169
Deserter, The 81, 102
Deutsch, Oscar 62, 63, 70
Devant, David 178
Devil’s Dyke 50, 51, 91, 150,
193
Devonshire Cinema 31, 34,
44, 71, 194
di Palma, Carlo 133
Dial Nfor Nurder 139
Diamond Jubilee 177
Diamond, Rex 135
Diary for Timothy 149
Dick Whittington 92
Dickens, Charles 58, 95, 199
Dickinson, Margaret 209
Dickinson, Thorold 154, 164
Dickson, Barbara 133
Dickson, William KennedyLaurie 9, 76, 153
Die Screaming, Marianne
123, 193, 197
Difficult Shave 93
Digital Screen Network 47, 53
Dillon, Carmen 158
Dining Table Publications 121
Dinner Party, The 109
Direct Digital Pictures 127, 136
Direct Film Transport Co 188
Dirty Weekend 123, 191
Disabled Motor, The 95
Disney 48
Disney, Doris Miles 135
Ditchling Rise 142, 193
Dixon of Dock Green 128,
167, 171
Doctor at Sea 157
Doctor in the House 65
Doctor Zhivago 46
Doctor’s Secret, The 65
Documento Film 133
Dodd, Ken 195
Dog Show, The 90
Dogs in the Surf 95
Dolphin Theatre 34, 49, 44,
196
Dolphins 123, 195, 196
Dome, The 33, 52, 150, 174,
192
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
124
Donald, James 137
Donat, Robert 15, 138
Donkey and the Serpentine
Dancer, The 97
Donkey Riding 87
Donkey Riding at Brighton
107
Donlan, Yolande 127
Donlevy, Brian 133
Donnisthorpe, Wordsworth 9
Donohoe, Amanda 123
Dormer, Charles 158
Dorne, Sandra 118, 125
Dorothy Stringer High School
123
Dorothy’s Dream 101
Dors, Diana 128, 137
Down Terrace 124, 193
Down, Lesley-Ann 118
Downey, Robert, Jr 133
Downland Housing Association 58
Downs Crematorium 170,
171, 183
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 164
Dragnet 16
Drake, Frank 125
Drama School 139
Drayton, Alfred 158
Dressler, E, Co 84, 188
Drew-Bear, P J 49, 53, 158,
190
Drinkel, Keith 124
Drive, The 193
Du Maurier, George 28, 173
Du Maurier, Gerald 158
Duchess of Idaho, The 44
Dudley Hotel 136
Dufay 156
Dufaycolor 157, 161
Duff Cooper, Alfred 47
Duffy, Brian 131
Duffy, Kenneth 71
Duke of York’s Cinema 126,
132, 135
Duke of York’s Cinema,
Brighton 16, 32, 33, 34,
39,40, 41, 40, 52-53, 153,
158, 169, 190, 197, 199
Duke of York’s Cinema, Shoreham 34, 39, 46, 52, 154, 194
Duke, Ivy 171
Dull Razor, The 93
Dumbo 74
Dunesly, C 54
Dunkin, Fred 57
Dunst, Kirsten 136
duopoly 14, 34
Duprez, June 137
DVD 16, 41, 116
Dwyer, Finola 130
Dyer, Anson 158, 192
Dyke Hotel 50, 150
Dyke Road 123, 134, 193
Dyke Station 87
Dynamiters, The 125
Eagle Rock Entertainment 136
Ealing Studios 15, 138
Earl of Camelot, The 187
Earl, Robert 123
Early Fashions on Brighton
Pier 89
Earthquake 46
East Brighton Estate 207
East Lynne 51, 110, 179
East Street 132, 193
East Sussex Record Office 212
Eastbourne 138
Easter, W & R A 48, 54
Eastern Road 125, 193
Eastern Terrace 124, 133, 136,
193
Eastman, Brian 136
Eastman, George 13, 83, 84
Eastmancolor 145
Easy Hours 139
Easy Rider 56
Eaton Court 125, 193
Eaton Road 125, 193
Eaton Villas 125, 193
Eclair cameras 115
Eclipse of the Moon, An 104
école de Brighton, L’ 10, 175,
209
Eden Theatre 30, 49, 75
Edgar Wallace Mysteries,
The:The Double 124, 195
Edge, Francis 126
Edge, S F 159, 163, 187
Edison Kinetophone 13, 43
Edison Kinetoscope 9, 10, 44,
74, 82
Edison Manufacturing
Company 144
Edison, Thomas 9, 12, 14, 65,
76, 84, 162, 187
Edison-Thomas Vitascope 65
Ediss, Connie 159
Edlin, Tubby 76, 88, 159
Edmund Gurney and the
Brighton Mesmerist 177
Edmunds, Christina 46
Edward Street 194
Edward VII 80
Edwards, Anthony 124
Edwards, Arthur 56
Edwards, Henry 170
Edwards, Maudie 135
Egleton Clive 120
Egyptian Hall 10
Electric Bioscope 34, 43, 179,
199
Electric Empire Picture Palace
34, 41, 54, 194
Electric Theatres (1908) 46,
189, 197
Electrocord 34, 54, 150
Elgar, Edward 206
Elias, Andrew 118
Elixir of Life, The 96, 156
Elizabeth is Queen 72
Ella’s Dream 139
Elleray, D Robert 210
Ellis, Frederick George 47, 61,
72, 159,
Ellis-Jones, Judith 118
Ellison, JW 71
Elm Grove 193
Elouhabi, Nabil 132
Elstree Studios 14, 166
Elvey, Maurice 159, 160, 170,
175
Elvira Madigan 67
Embassy Cinema 34, 39,40, 41,
73-74, 153, 164, 165, 190, 200
Embassy Court 130, 195
Emerald, Nell 86, 161, 167, 168
EMI 46, 72, 136
Emmott, Basil 119
Empire Electric Theatre 34,
54, 71
Empire Marketing Board 208
Empire Picture Theatre 34,
38, 41, 54, 86, 109, 160, 194,
197, 198
Empire Theatre of Varieties
10, 34, 49, 125, 150
End of the Affair, The 124,
194, 196, 197, 198
End of the Pier International
Film Festival 118, 135
Endfield, Cy Raker 126, 130,
133, 160, 163, 205
Enemy from Space 132
England Invaded 60, 109, 193
English Stage Company 167
Enterprise Films 133
Entertainment Development
Syndicate 65
Entertainment Group 63
Entertainment Ventures 125
entertainments tax 13
Entree 139
Episode in the Life of a
Lodger, An 97
Era, The 210
Eragraph 57
Eros Films 119, 133
Esmond, Henry V 170
Esplanade Pavilion 195
Essanay 84
Essential Music Festival 46
Essoldo 31, 32, 33, 37, 55-56,
153, 197
Essoldo Circuit (Control) 55,
189
Estridge, Robin 136
Eugene Sandow 94
European Blair Camera
Company 178
European Film Awards 133
Eurovision Song Contest 35,
52, 46
Evans, Barry 123
Evans, Clifford 134, 135
Evans, Edith 122
Evans, Fred 160, 204
Evans, George 57
Evans, HC 190
Evans, Maurice 160
Evans, Paul Vaughan 135
Evans, Will 93, 158, 160, 163,
168, 175, 204
Evening Argus 29, 46, 50, 165,
174, 210
Evening Telegraph, Dundee
211
Ever Since Eve 49
Evil-doer’s Sad End, The 102
Ewart Street 128, 193
Excess Profits Duty Act 1915
189
Exporting Entertainment 12,
177
Extra Turn, An 99
Eyles, Keith 135
Eylure of London 150
Eyre, Richard 132
Faces 170
Fairweather, John 55
Faith, Adam 55
Famous Players-Lasky 14,
153, 170
Fanny Hill 124
Faraflix 131
Farhoumand, Jian Cyrus 131
Farr, Derek 138
Farrar, David 127
Farrell, Colin 122
Fast Learners 139
Fat Boy Slim Live from the Big
Beach Boutique 119
Fatboy Slim 124
Faust and Mephistopheles 90
Fawlty Towers 169
Feast, Michael 156
Federation of British Industry
(FBI) 206, 207
Felix, Jon 124
Fellner, Eric 134, 136
Fellowes, Julian 136
Fellows, Mrs LReith 160
Femme Fatale 139
Ferguson Pictures 118
Ferguson, Sarah 136
Ferguson, Sinead 118
Fernie & Sydenham 48, 189
Fernie, George H 48, 50, 153,
160
Ferrera, Joe 132
Festival Film Productions 138
Festival of Britain 52, 138
Fielding, Rachel 127
Fields,, Gracie 113, 160, 165
Fiennes, Ralph 124
Fight 90
Fighting His Battles Over
Again 99
Filie, F L 57
film classification 46
Film Industry Defence
Organisation (FIDO) 41
film production 14, Parts 3
and 4, and passim
Film Society, The 152
Film Studios (Brighton) 172,
188, 205
Filmoteca de Catalunya 88
Finkel, Abem 127
Finlay, Frank 132
Finlay, Jeanie 135
Finn, Herbert A 54
Finsbury Technical College 9
Fircombe-on-Sea 122
Fire and Police Obstacle Race
93
Fire Brigade Sports 91
Fire Drill 93
Fire Over England 149, 175
Fire! 5, 12, 80, 96, 114, 141,
194, 199
fires 39, 46, 49, 54, 59, 60, 61,
66, 69
Fires of Innocence 112, 149, 165
Fireworks Pictures 130
First Avenue 193
First Gentleman, The 113,
114, 124, 172, 198
Cinema-by-Sea
Index
First Look International 133
First National 14
First of the Few, The 152
Firstsight Films 119
Firth, Colin 119
Fish Can’t Fly 139
Fisher, Adeline 184
Fisher, Gerry 118
Fisher, Terence 122, 125
Fishersgate railway station 194
Fishing Smack Race 91
Fisz, S Benjamin 127, 133
Fitch, Clyde 137
Fitzherbert, Mrs 137, 138
Fixers 125
Flackett, Jennifer 136
Flag Lieutenant, The 170
Flanagan, Bud 149
Flaw, The 125
Fleming, Brandon 118, 125,
134, 205
Flemyng, Robert 122
Flesh and Blood Show, The
125, 197, 199
Flint, Walter R 54, 160, 198
Flood, Gerald 134
Flood, The 50
Florence Road 175
Fly Trap 125
Flying from Justice 110, 169
Flying the Fom and Some
Fancing Diving 105, 199
Foiadelli, Adrian 128, 129
Foort, Reginald 60
Football and Cricket 88
Football Game and
Scrimmage 88, 159
For Her Sake 109
For This Is Film 131
Forbes, Bryan 15, 133
Forbes, Meriel 131
Forbidden Lover, The 91
Ford and Hanson 99
Ford, Howard J 129
Ford, Jon 129
Forde, Walter 138
Fordham, Sam 120
Foreign Correspondent 151
Foreman Went to France, The
180
Formby, George 113
Forsyth, Richard 121
Forsyth, Tony 125
Fort Lee, New Jersey 170
Forth, Muriel 196, 210
42nd Street 138
Foster, Dudley 134
Foster, Pat 53
Four Brothers and a Funeral
139
Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse 69, 152
Fowler, David 66
Fox, Michelle 119
Fox, William 165, 194
Fox-and-geese 89
Fox Film Company 138
Francis, Derek 134, 160
Francis, Raymond 161
Frank 139
Franklin, William 133
Franklin Road 119, 193
Fraser, Bill 118
Fraser, Ronald 123
Fraudulent Beggar, The 91
Freaks 163, 165
Fred Ott’s Sneeze 76
Free Trade Bench, The 101
Freehold Terrace 193
Freeman, Ellis 127
Freeman, FJ 47, 61
Freeman, Hardy & Willis 57
freemasonry 168, 175
French Can-Can 38
Frenkel, Theo 109, 161
Freshfield Road 193
Cinema-by-Sea
Friedman, Joseph 124
Friel, Anna 130
Friend, Capt BJ 43
Friend, Rupert 136
Friese, Mariana Helena 161
Friese Greene and Collings
161, 190
Friese Greene, William 9, 38,
75, 125, 138, 143-146, 152,
155, 157, 158, 159, 161-163,
164, 178, 179, 187, 190, 191,
196, 200
Friese-Greene, Claude 146,
154, 157, 161, 187
Friese-Greene, Graham 163,
196
Friese-Greene, Raymond 200
Friese-Greene: Portrait of an
Inventor 138, 163, 196
Frinton, Freddie 132
From Bud to Blossom 109
From London to Brighton 101
Frost, Nick 120
Fruit Machine, The 114, 125,
195, 199
Fry, Stephen 130
Fryco 49
Fu Manchu, Dr 168
Fuerst Bros 82
Full Monty, The 40
Full On Film Productions 123
Fuller, William 46
Fury, Billy 55
Furze Hill 134, 168, 194, 201
Fusion International Sales 133
Gabriel Grub the Surly Sexton
103
Gaffney, Deirdre 127
Gaiety Cinema 33, 39, 40, 56,
118, 174, 175, 195
Gaiety Theatre 49, 198
Gaiman, Neil 130
Gainsborough Pictures 137,
138, 156, 159
Gala Bingo 58
Galloway, Lindsay 124
Galton, Ray 129
Gambler’s Wife, The 92
Game of Chess and Kisses, A 92
Gance, Abel 73, 154
Gandhi 154
Gannon, Wilf 86
Garbo, Greta 172
Gardner Arts Centre 57
Gardner Road 194
Gardner Street 128, 194
Garrett, Thomas, & Son 50, 52
Garrick, John 163
GAS Films 82, 187
Gaslight 149, 164
Gaumont, Léon 83
Gaumont British 137
Gaumont Company 13, 43,
58, 83, 102
Gaumont-British Picture
Corporation 33, 34, 43, 50,
59, 69, 172, 189, 190
Gay Divorcee, The 113, 137
Gaywood Cinemas 55, 189
GB-Kalee see Kalee
Geere, Edward 43
Gehry, Frank 42
Gelignite Gang, The 15, 125,
191, 193, 198, 205
Gelman, Milton S 134
Gem Cinema 34, 36, 57, 65,
74, 195
Gem Electric Cinema 34, 36,
57, 176, 195
Gemmell, Ruth 127
General Cinema Theatres 34
General Film Distributors
123, 129, 131, 136
General Theatre Corporation
50, 189
Genevieve 65, 114, 125, 195,
196
Genn, Leo 123
Gentle Sex, The 152
Gentleman Joe Palooka 160
George IV 32, 180
George V 12, 49, 52, 145
George VI 56
George, Isabel 135
George, Susan 123
George Street 114, 194
Getting Rid of His Dog 106
Ghandi 68
Ghost Goes West, The 165
Ghost Ship 126, 194, 198, 200
Gibb, James 123
Gibbs, Gerald 132, 135
Gibraltar Films 125, 130
Gielgud, John 131, 153
Gilbert & Sullivan 169
Gilbert, Lewis 122
Gill, Eric 196
Gilliat, Sidney 128, 138,166
Ginett’s Royal Circus 57
Gingerbread 109
Ginsbury, Norman 124
Girl on the Pier, The 126, 155,
194, 197
Girl with a Pistol (La Rag azza
con la Pistola) 133
Girls Bathing 90
Girl Who Forgot, The 152
Girton House School 167
GK Films 136
Gladstone’s Funeral 91
Gladys the penguin 138
Glaser, Paul 132
Glazer, Brian 123
Glen, William R 71
Glendening, Jonathan 135
Glenister, EV 52
Globocine International
Pictures 127
Gloucester Place 194
Gloucester Road 114, 154, 194
Go-Between, The 158
Goble, Alan 211
Godard, Jean-Luc 80
Goldbacher, Sandra 130
Goldcrest Films International
132
Goldcrest Pictures 119
Golden Era Film Distributors
133
Goldie, Wyndham 138
Goldsman Akiva 123
Goldstone Villas 194
Gompertz, Moses 60
Gone 139
Gone with the Wind 33, 41,
46, 138
Goo 139
Good Joke, A 92
Good News 58
Good Stories 92
Good Story, A 95
Good Time Girl 137
Goodbye 139
Goodbye, Mr Chips 170
Goodchild, John 209
Goodheart, Geoffrey 118, 125,
134
Goodliffe, Michael 127
Goodman, Henry 137, 176
Goodnight Vienna 171
Goon Show, The 132, 160
Gordon & Co 74
Gordon Bennett Trophy 159
Gordon Highlanders 106
Gordon, Leon 163
Gorell, Lord 206
Gorman, Ewan 135
Goulding, Alfred 118
Goulty, JN 199
Grable, Betty 137
Grace, Nathalie 123
Grace, W G 91
Grade, Lew 56
Granada Cinema 33, 38, 39,
40, 41, 46, 57, 189, 197
Granada Television 125, 171
Grand Avenue 173
Grand Cinema De Luxe 34, 65
Grand Cinema Theatre 30,
31, 33, 34, 36, 39, 41, 58,
167, 169, 176, 196
Grand Concert Hall 58, 199
Grand Hotel 123, 132, 134, 194
Grand Junction Road 124,
126, 127,194
Grand National Pictures 130
Grand National, The 91
Grand Parade 126, 177
Grand Picture Palace 31, 34,
39, 58, 199
Grandma Threading Her
Needle 93
Grandma’s Reading Glass 78,
93, 178
Grandmother’s Wolf 93
Granger, Derek 126
Granger, Stewart 137
Grant, Arthur 127
Grant, Stanley 126
Graves, George 163, 168
Graves, Peter 138
Graves, Rupert 126
Gray, Douglas Stannus 194
Gray, Frank 209, 210
Great Bargain Sale, The 107
Great British Films 133, 135
Great Football Cup Final, The
106
Great Gatsby, The 154
Great Glove Fight 95
Great Sea Serpent, The 103
Great Spy Raid, The 170, 171
Great War 13
Greaves, J E 61, 163, 174
Green, Aaron 135
Green, Harry 131
Green, Janet 122
Green, Josh 127
Green, Nellie 76, 164
Green, Nigel 163
Green, The, Southwick 194
Green, Tom 76, 88. 89, 92, 93,
94, 95, 98, 125, 163, 193,
199, 201
Greene, Graham 113, 121, 124
Greenpoint Films 132
Greensleeves 139
Greenwood, Jack 124
Gregory, Thea 134
Gregson, John 125
Grendon Films 122
Grenfell, Joyce 125
Grenville Place 194
Gresham House 58
Greyer, Dominic 120
Gridley, RI 205
Grierson, John 208
Griffin, Samuel 66
Griffith, DW 65, 70
Griffith, Hugh 125
Griffiths, F R 44
Griggs, Frank W 44, 46
Grindrod, Phil 130
Grindstone Entertainment
Group 123
Grip of Iron, The 86, 110
Grogan, Clare 132
Groome, Georgia 119, 129
Grosvenor Casino 72
Group Film Productions 129,
136
Grove Family, The 173
Groves, Elizabeth 157, 200
Groves, Fred 164
Grube, Thomas J 126
Grün, E F 143, 146, 163, 164,
194
Guardian, The 129
Guest, Val 127, 132, 137
Guillermin, John 118
Guinness, Alec 15, 126
Guns of Navarone, The 69
Gurney, Edmund 177
Guttenberg, Maurice 161
Gutteridge, H 65
Guy, Alice 181
Gymnastics 90
Gymnastics series 88
Haddington Street 194
Hagen, Julius 179
Hale, George 94
Hale, Sonny 166
Hale’s Tours 94
Haley, Bill 164
Hall, Joshua David 127
Hall, Stuart 164
Halliday, William 132
Halpern, Louis 47, 61
Hamer, Robert 138
Hamilton, Andy 130
Hamilton, Patrick 113, 164,
193
Hamlet 158, 171, 172, 176
Hammer Films 132
Hammond, A 67
Handful of Dust, A 126
Handl, Irene 123, 131, 138
HandMade Films 130
Hanging Out the Clothes, or
Master, Mistress and Maid
88
Hangleton 42
Hangleton Way 194
Hanks, Tom 123
Hanley, Jack 119
Hanley, Jenny 125
Hannah, John 123
Hannan, Peter 126
Hanson, Michael 132
Hard Day’s Night, A 168
Hard Rock Café 63
Hardiman, James 164
Hardiman, Mr & Mrs Edward
44
Hardt, Stephanie 126
Hardy, Thomas 206
Harker, Gordon 138
Harlequinade: What They
Found in the Laundry
Basket 96
Harman, Edith Kate 178
Harmsworth, Cecil 206
Harnett, Ricci 121
Harper, Frank 123
Harper, Roy 129
Harris, Andy 137
Harris, Arthur WIlliam 12
Harris, John 73, 155, 164
Harris, Johnny 129
Harris, Lionel 124
Harris, Rosemary 132, 137
Harrison, Edith Jane 162
Harrison, George 43
Harrison, Kathleen 122, 137
Harrison, Rex 62
Harrison, Tom 119
Harry Cohen Productions 138
Hart, Ian 124
Hartington Road 129
Hartley, Sonny 121
Hartnell, William 121, 123,
127
Hartney, Luke 124
Harvesting 91
Harvey, Walter J 134
Harwood, Ronald 133
Hass, Leontine 135
Hastings Pier 30, 89, 177
Hatcher, Julie 53
Haunted Castle, The 88
Haunted Picture Gallery, The
92
217
Index
Havelock-Allan, Anthony 136
Hawke, Lord 91
Hawkhurst, Kent 35
Hawkins, Jack 15, 131
Hawkins, Sally 122
Hawley, Richard 133
Hawleys of High Street, The
57
Hawthorne, Nigel 133
Hay, Tom 131
Hayden Coffin, Adeline 158,
164, 175
Hayden, John 118
Hayes, D J 48
Hayes, John Michael 122
Hayes, Melvyn 118
Hayman, Cyd 134
Hays, Will H 206
Hayter, James 137
Head, Graham 69, 95, 165
Headington, Tim 136
Heart Sussex 193
Heathen 126, 191, 192, 195,
197, 197
Heather Brothers, The 120
Heavy Load 126
Hecht, Ben 173
Hedgerley 135
Heine, William 53
Hell Drivers 126, 160
Heller, Otto 127
Hellier, Jack 60
Hellinger, Mark 127
Help! 183
Hemmings, David 119
Hemsley, H L 49
Henchard, Michael 111, 164
Henfield 35
Henri & Laverdet 46
Henry V 158, 172, 174
Henry, Lenny 130
Henson, Basil 124
Hepworth, Cecil 83, 116, 166
Hepworth Manufacturing
Company 83, 101, 153, 154,
159, 161
Hepworth Vivaphone 54
Her First Cake 105
Her Greatest Performance
170
Her Majesty’s Theatre 49
Her Reputation 170
Herbert, Stephen 210
Hereford Street 170
Herostratus 174
Herriott, R 46
Hickton & Farmer 54
High Street, Shoreham 194
Highgate Cemetery 200
Highland Fling 91
Highland Maid, A 111, 195
Highlight 127, 198
Highton, James 124
Highway, The 194
Hilarious Bank Holiday
Crowd, A 93
Hilarity on Board Ship 97
Hildyard, Jack 124
Hill, Bernard 136
Hill, Janet 124
Hill, Robert 124, 132
Hill, Robin 124, 132
Hill, William 200
Hilliard, Patricia 165, 194
Hilton, Daisy and Violet 165
Hilton, Tony 131
Hindell, T Guy 46
Hinds, Anthony 132
Hippodrome 34, 36, 40, 40,
49, 59, 69, 86, 109, 144, 150,
158, 168, 169, 196
Hippodrome Circus 58
Hird, Thora 131
His First Cigar 93
His First Cigar, Probably His
Last 97
218
History of a Butterfly, The: A
Romance of Insect Life 109
Hitchcock, Alfred 60, 86, 113,
137, 151, 152, 164, 166, 171,
182
Hitman, Gerald 53
Hobden, Phil 123, 129, 131,
135, 136
Hobson, Valerie 15
Hodcarriers’ Ping Pong, The
99
Hodder’s grocery store 195
Hodgins, Arthur 72
Hoellering, George 179
Hoffman, Philip Seymour 120
Holder, WG 72
Holland Road 42, 194
Holland, Mike 46
Hollander, Abe 51
Holloway, Stanley 15, 128
Hollywood 16, 32, 160, 163,
164, 172
Holmes, Alfred 154, 194, 198,
199
Holmes, Andrew 119
Holmfirst 10
Holt, Patrick 118, 125
Home for the Holidays 102
Home Office 37
Home Video 139
Homecoming 139
Homelees House 193
Hooper, Liam 123
Hooper, Tom 137
Hop Dog 118
Hope, Bob 62
Hopkins, Joan 125
Hordern, Michael 125
Hornet’s Nest 112, 166, 183
Horses Ploughing 91
Horton, Edward Everett 137
Horton, Ronald 69
Hose Scene 75, 87
Hoskins, Bob 130, 176
Hot Ice 127, 169
Hot Shots 56
Hotel Paradiso 153
Houdini, Harry 44
Hounslow, Christine 135
House of Lords 146, 206
House of Wax 46, 55
House that Jack Built, The 78,
93
House Unamerican Activi ties
Committee 160
Houston, Donald 125, 130
Houston, Renée 128
Hove Borough Council 30,
36, 54, 58, 73, 192, 194, 200,
202
Hove Camera Club 10, 30, 60,
184
Hove Cinematograph Theatre
34, 73-74, 152, 155, 164,
190, 193, 198, 200
Hove Coastguards at Cutlass
Drill 89
Hove Coastguards at Flag
Drill 89
Hove fire brigade 194
Hove Lagoon 167
Hove Lawns 132, 194
Hove Museum 211
Hove Park Road 168
Hove Sea Wall in a Gale, The
87
Hove Street 114
Hove Town Hall 10, 30, 39,
60, 166, 168
How Britain Prepared 182
How Pa Reads the Morning
Paper 98
How They Made a Man of
Billy Brown 107
Howard, Gabriel 121
Howard, Joyce 138
Howard, Leslie 152, 172, 173
Howard, Moya 121
Howard, Ron 123
Howard, Ronald 128
Howard, Saul 121
Howard, Trevor 128
Howell, Kristina Ann 118
Howes, Sally Ann 138
Hoye, John 126
Hudd, Roy 196
Hudson, Victor 57
Hughes Hain & Co 42
Hume, Alan 122
Hume, Kenneth 127
Humphries, Dave 132
Hundred Pound Window, The
113, 118, 127
Hunt, J Roy 137
Hunter, Mr 77, 92, 94, 95, 98
Hunter, Ross 122
Hurst, Andy 132
Hurst, Brian Desmond 127
Hurst, Mike 129, 131
Hurst, Veronica 126
Hurst Green 35
Hurt, John 121
Hussey, Olivia 118
Huston, Anjelica 126
Huston, John 154
Hutchins, Fred 76, 165
Huxtable, Judy 123
Hylton, Jack 55
Hythe Road 194
I, a Woman 38, 48
I B Tauris 121
I Bet You 127
I Love Lucy 16
I See Me 139
Ibbetson, Arthur 122
Ideal Communications Films
125
I Don’t Think It’s a Potato 139
Ifans, Rhys 120
Illington, Marie 75, 165
Illustrated Chips 10
Imagine Entertainment 123
Imperial Arcade 200
Imperial Conference 208
Imperial Hotel 10, 60, 197
Imperial Picture Palace 34, 36,
49, 60, 67, 198
Imperial Theatre/Cinema 31,
34, 36, 55, 153, 197
Imperial War Museum 79, 174
In the Good Old Times 104
In the Green Room 95
In Which We Serve 118
Incident on Brighton Beach
106
Incorporated Television
Company (ITC) 134
Indeception 139
Independent Artists 123, 129
Inexhaustible Cab, The 92
Infield, J Henson 43, 44, 139,
191
Inside 139
Inside Track Films 136
Inspector Hornleigh on
Holiday 148, 166
Instone, Michael 120
Interesting Story, An 103, 192
International C-Productions
129
International Creative
Management 176
International Federation of
Film Archives (FIAF) 10,
78, 125
International Film Publi shers’
Congress 13, 32
International Projecting &
Producing Company 85
Internationale Filmproduktion
Stella-del-Süd 119
Internet Movie Database
(IMDb) 116, 161, 211
Intimate Strangers are Here,
The 127
Intolerance 65
Intuition Shorts, The 127
Ipcress File, The 163
I Put My Heart into This Film
139
Ireland, Jill 127, 138
Irishman and His Button, The
97
Irving, Henry 152
Irwin, Boyd 139
Isle of Man Film 130
Islingword Street 128, 194
It Began in Brighton (1937)
138
It Began in Brighton (1966)
212
Itinerama 60, 194
ITV 16
Ives, Frederic 141, 180, 209
Ivy Lodge 78, 199
Izzard, Eddie 123
Jacey Cinemas 189
Jacey Film Theatre 31, 34, 67
Jack and Jill windmills 102,
104, 118, 120, 191
Jack Ashore 102
Jack Leslie & Co 48, 190
Jack’s the Boy 54
Jackson, Gordon 127, 138
Jackson, Louis H 138
Jacobs, Harry 52, 74, 139, 190
Jaffe, Shirley 118
Jailbirds 50
jam factory 60
Jam, The 74
James Williamson & Co 187
James, Kieron 135
James, Mr 95
James, Sid 122, 127, 128, 133
Janni, Joseph 129
Janssen, Famke 123
January 2nd 127
January Films 127
Jay, Mark 123, 139
Jazz Singer, The 14
Jealous Painter, The 92
Jeg—en Kvinde 38, 48
Jenkins, Megs 138
Jessop, Peter 125
Jew Street 194
Jigsaw 114, 127, 191, 194, 195,
196
Jim Henson Productions 130
Jimbo Entertainment 128, 129
Jockey, The 110
Joffe, Rowan 121
Joffee, Charles H 122
John Bash Films Corporation
119
John Bull 168
John Bull’s Hearth 81, 101
John Halifax, Gentleman 151
John Lewis Partnership 52
Johnna Man, The 128
Johns, Glynis 129
Johns, Mervyn 138
Johnson, S 60
Jolly Old Couple, A 93
Jones, Ada 178
Jones, Alan 123
Jones, Jonah 122, 130
Jones, Julian 129
Jones, Levi, & Co 82
Jordan, HE 53, 190
Jordan, Neil 124, 130
Joseph, Andy 129
Journey, The 139
JourneyOn 211
Jovial Monks No 1, The 93
Jovial Monks No 2, The: Tit
for Tat 93
Joyce, James 37, 48
Jubilee Library 41
Judd, Edward 118, 137
Juggins’ Motor 102
Jules et Jim 48
Jumeaux, Benjamin 81, 143,
144, 146, 157, 163, 165, 173,
193, 196, 200
Jumeaux de Brighton, Les 118
jump cut 76
Jump Start Productions 123,
135
Junkin, Harry W 134
Juno and the Paycock 86, 171
Just in Time 106
Justin, John 127
Kalee 34, 44, 48, 53, 168
Kalem Company 154
Kammatograph 157
Kansas City Fire Depart ment
94
Kanter, Jay 136
Karloff, Boris 167
Karslake, Lewis 59
Keen, Jeff 165
Keep, The 212
Kempner, Mark 124
Kendall, Kay 125, 128
Kenny & The Wranglers 119
Kent, Jean 137
Kenwright, Bill 124
Kerr, Bill 130, 132
Kerr, Deborah 62, 122
Kesten, Bob 128
Key, The 151
Khondji, Darius 136
KIL 1 128
Kine Year Book 48, 210
Kinemacolor 12, 38, 43, 82,
86, 145, 146, 157, 161, 163,
169, 170, 177, 178, 179, 181182, 189, 202
Kinemacolor Puzzle 107
Kinemas (East Anglia) 170
Kinematograph [and Lantern]
Weekly 13, 38, 76, 82, 161,
207, 211
Kinematograph Daily 211
Kinematograph Manufac
turers’ Association 37
Kinematograph Renters’
Association 208
Kinematographe 57
Kine-Opera 43
Kineto 161, 187
Kinetoscope see Edison
Kinetoscope
Kinetours 52, 190
King Alfred Lanes 61
King Alfred Leisure Centre 42
King and Queen pub 159
King Kong 33, 163
King Street 194
King, George 138
King, Graham 136
King, H E 42
King, John 60, 166
King’s Court Hotel 121
King’s Head 79, 156, 199
King’s Minicine News Cinema
34, 60, 165, 194
King’s People, The 56
King’s Road 114, 128, 132,
133, 134, 194
King’s Road Brighton 87
King’s Royal Bioscope 64
Kings Cliff Cinema 12, 33, 34,
48, 74, 160, 199
Kingston Lane 195
Kingston Super Cinema 50
Kingsway 132, 168, 196
Kingswest see Odeon
Kinoblatz 211
Kinoplastikon 65, 163
Kirkby, Tim 120
Cinema-by-Sea
Index
Kiss Before the Mirror 49
Kiss Chase 139
Kiss in the Tunnel , The 77,
81, 92, 177
Kitchener, Lord 151
Kitten Nursery, The 95
Kleine Optical Company 83
Kleine, George 13, 84
Knack, The 183
Kneale, Nigel 132
knickers 122
Knight, David 119, 136
Knight, Esmond 119
Knight, James 166
Knox, Alexander 118
Koch, Howard 131
Kodak 13
Komedia 16, 53
Korda, Alexander 46, 152,
154, 172
Kossoff. David 136
Krahn, Julia 127
Kromscop 141, 144, 209
Kruse, John 126
Kudos Film and Television
121
Kureishi, Hanif 119
Kydd, Sam 136
La Bern, Arthur 137
Laboratory Lodge 178, 198
Lacrois, Superintendent 49
Lacroix, LE 46
Ladbrokes 56
Ladd, Alan, Jr 136
Lady Barber, The 90
Lady Godiva Rides Again 70,
128, 125, 166, 167, 182, 191,
193, 195, 196, 197, 208
Lady Noggs: Peeress 111
Lady Vanishes, The 166
Lady’s First Lesson on the
Bicycle, A 99, 183
Ladykillers, The 179
Laemmle, Carl 85
Lambeth Walk, The 163
Lancashire, Sarah 119
Lancing College 172
Landin, Daniel 134
Landing at Low Tide 87
Lanes, The 119, 121, 123, 196
Lang, Fritz 43
Lang, Joseph 130
Langdon, Mrs LMerriman 70
Langford’s Hotel 132, 199
Langley, Norman 123
Langrish, EA, & Co 168
Lansdowne Road 134, 196
Lanson, Delphine 132
Large, Tom 104,119, 125
Lasowski, Elisa 127
Last Chance, The 139
Last Glass of the Two Old
Sports, The 95
Last of the Mohicans, The 167
Last Picture Show, The 44
Latest Music Bar
Latham, Alan 123
Latimer, Hugh 126, 133
Laughton, Charles 43
Launch of Brighton Lifeboat
from Pier 94
Launch of the Shamrock 92
Launder, Frank 125, 128, 138,
166, 182, 208
Laurance, S 190
Laureate 133
Laurel and Hardy 166
Lavin, Nora 118
Lawn Tennis 92
Laws, Stuart 127, 136
Lawson, Anne 124
Lawson, Steve 134
Lawson, Wilfred 127, 137
Lawton, Frank 166
Lawton, John 188
Cinema-by-Sea
Lawton, Jos 118
Lawyer Quince 43
Laye, Evelyn 166
Layton, Vernon 124
Lazer Warriors 74
Lazzaro, Stefano 127
Le Blond, Mrs Aubrey 60,
166, 193
Le Frenais, Ian 136
Le Mesurier, John 127
Le Prince, Louis 9
Lear, Professor 57
Lee, Brenda 55
Lee, Christopher 118, 119
Lee, Frederick Marshall 142
Leeds 9
Leeds United 137
Leeds, Charles 130
Leeney, Alderman 36
Lees Nursing Home 193
Left for Dead 114, 129, 136
Legacy, The 92
legs, rooftop 53
Leigh, Andrew 166
Leighton, Margaret 15
Leighton-Porter, Christabel
118
Leister, Frederick 127
Leland, David 130, 136
Lennard, Arthur 167, 197, 197
Leno, Dan 156, 175
Leonidas, Stephanie 130
Lepard, Mr 95
Lerner, Alan Jay 131
Leroux, Gaston 43
Leslie, Jack 48, 57, 52
Let Me DreamAgain 78, 93,
144
Let’s Go Crazy 139
Letter Box Thief, The 108
Letter, The 106
Letty Limelight in her Lair 94,
150
Levin, Mark 136
Lewenstein, Oscar 167, 199
Lewes Crescent 131, 132, 171,
196
Lewes Road 142, 196
Lewis, Arthur 129
Lewis, Helen 129
Lewis, Jerry Lee 119
Lewis, Ronald 127
Lewis, Sinclair 47
Lewis, Steven Rhys 129
Lewis, Sydney K 167
Lewonski, SW 54
Lido Cinema 33, 34, 36, 54,
60-61, 193
Lido School of Dancing 61
Life and Death of Peter Sellers,
The 176
Life of a London Fireman 96
Life of an American Fireman
12
Life of Shakespeare, The 150
Life of the Wild Duck 109
Life Sentence 139
Lift, The, Aghost story 139
Light Up the Sky 62
light waves 141
Lighthouse 53
Lilac Sunbonnet, The 112,
158
Liles, Ronald 134
Lilley, Adam 120
Linda 129, 197
Lion Has Wings, The 152
Lion Leisure Group 58
Lipsync Productions 123
Liqueurs and Cigars 109
Listen to Britain 149
Lister, Eve 167
Lister, Moira 138
Little Doctor and the Sick
Kitten, The 95
Little Dorrit 111, 170
Little East Street 196
Little Lord Fauntleroy 168,
170
Little Matchseller, The 80, 99,
185, 186
Little Miss Nobody 112
Little Mother, The 107
Little Western Arms 73
Little Witness, The 101
Little, Mark 130
Littlewood, Joan 131
Litvinoff Si 118
Lively Scene on Hastings Pier
89
Llik Your Idols 129
Lloyd, Emily 136
Lloyd, Marie 64, 77,7 125, 167
Lloyd, Ted 127
locations 115
Lockwood, Margaret 122, 137
Loder, John 137
Lodge, John 137
Lom, Herbert 127, 137
Loman, Paul 139
Lombardi & Co 58, 144, 173,
199
Loncraine, Richard 133, 136
London & Amsterdam
Properties 42
London, Brighton & South
Coast Railway 151, 199
London Film Company 188
London Film-makers’ Cooperative 166
London Films 128
London Gazette 211
London Road 122, 124,196
London to Brighton 114, 129
London to Brighton in Four
Minutes 139
London Weekend Television
126, 136
Lone Wolf 139
Lonely Man, The 66
Long, Reginald 124
Long, Stanley A 128, 131
Longhurst, Henry 167
Look Back in Anger 167
Loose Ends 71
Loot 129, 191, 199
Lord Chancellor 146
Loreburn, Lord 146
Lorimer, Peter 132
Lorna Road 196
Lorne, Mark 69
Lorraine, Harry 167
Lorrigan, Steve 126
Lost Connection 139
Lotto, Lilo and Otto 95, 125,
167
Louis Tussaud Waxworks 126,
132
Love Birds, The 131
Love on the Pier 89
Low, Rachael 82, 209
Lower Rock Gardens 135, 196
Lowland Cinderella, A 112,
170, 171
LTB Films 129
Lubin 83
Lucari, Gianni Hecht 133
Luckin, Kris 125
Lugosi, Bela 167
Lumière 9, 27, 29, 82, 145, 172
Lump in the Road, A 139
Lupino, Ida 86, 160, 168
Lupino, Stanley 86, 160
Luton Tool Company 188
Lutyens, Edwin 163
Lyndhurst, F L 86, 163, 168,
187, 188, 192, 204
Lyndhurst Road 196
Lynn, Ralph 55, 62
Lyon 10
Lyons, E E 36, 43, 44, 45, 46,
146, 168, 189
Lyons, Edward F 168, 194,
195, 196
Lyons, Gina 121
Lyons, H Agar 86, 168
Lyons, Sir Joseph 43
McAvoy, James 136
McCallum, David 123, 127
McCallum, John 128
McDonald, Alistair G 42
MacDonald, David 118, 137
MacDonald, John 121
McEwan, Ian 132
McFarlane, Brian 210
McGann, Sasha 132
MacGinnis, Niall 127
McGinty, Brendan 123
McGoohan, Patrick 127
McGregor, Ewan 122
MacIlwraith, Bill 129
McIntyre, Pamela 125
McKean, Dave 130
McKee, Gina 119, 130
McKellen, Ian 123, 133
MacKenzie, John 129
Mackenzie, Mary 130
McKern, Leo 137
McKernan, Luke 151, 210
McLachlan, Kyle 130
McLean, Quentin 71
McLeod, William 126
MacNaughton, Alan 124
McNicholas, Steve 46, 136
McQueeney, Maire 121, 210
McShane, Ian 136
Mad About Men 129, 167
Maddern, Victor 136
Maddick, Edmund Distin 42,
168, 182, 190, 192
Made 129
Madeira Drive 88, 113, 114,
119, 122, 123, 124, 125, 131,
132, 134, 136, 196
Madeira Lift 122
Magic Box, The 148, 152, 154,
196
Magic Extinguisher, The 96,
156
Magic Journey 139
Magni, Luigi 133
Magnificent Ambersons, The
160
Magnificent Music Machines
Museum 70
Maguire & Baucus 82, 175,
187, 188
Maher, Terry 123
Maid in the Garden, The 88
Maid, SPB 194
Main Street 47
Mainline Run 129
Majestic (Brighton) 50, 190
Majestic Cinema 34, 51, 71,
194
Major Barbara 62
Major Pictures 126
Make Mine a Million 150
Making Sausages 88
Malleson, Miles 125
Man and a Woman, A 110,
168
Man Drinking 88
Man for All Seasons, A 176
Man in a Box 129
Man in the Dark 38, 55
Man Who Knew Too Much,
The 151, 151
Man with a Flag 94
Man’s Shadow, A 111
Mancunian Films 113, 150
Mander, Miles 137
Manjinga 7:Monsters in the
Sky 139
Mann, Tim 135
Manners, Lord John 60
Manon 37, 55
Manor Way 118, 196
Manuva, Roots 124
Manvell, Roger 10, 82, 209
Maranne, André 133, 169
Marcel, Kelly 129
March of Time 140
March, Anita 150, 169
Marcus, Stephen 133
Marey, Etienne-Jules 9
Marguerite, La 95
Marine Drive 118, 120, 124, 196
Marine Gardens 175, 196
Marine Gate 120, 124, 196
Marine Parade 122, 127, 129,
132, 133, 135, 136, 170, 180,
196
Marine Square Gardens 118
Markham, Chris 127
Marks, Alfred 132
Marks, George Harrison 123
Marks, Rudolph 71
Markwick, J 54
Marlipins Museum 211
Marlowe, Anthony 126
Marriage License? 153
Marriott, Steve 119
Marsan, Eddie 134
Marsden, Betty 136
Marsh, Carol 121
Marsh, Reginald 134
Marshall, Herbert 151
Marshall, Joelle Jane 136
Marshall, Ken 129
Martin, Jamie 133
Martyn, H H, & Co 71
Marvellous Capillary Elixir 96
Marvellous Hair Restorer, The
96, 156
Marx Brothers 53, 163, 173,
183
Mary Jane’s Mishap, or Don’t
Fool with the Paraffin 12,
81, 97
Mary Poppins 180
Mask, The 139
Mason, Bert 132
Mason, Herbert 122
Massey, Ceil 42
Master Mariner kitchens 118
Master Plan, The 115, 130,
160, 198, 205
Matador Pictures 119
Matcham, Frank 58, 59, 64,
169
Matches 139
MatchSeller 139
Mather, Andrew 62, 63
Matheson, Judy 125
Mathieson, John 121
Matthews Holder & Co 71-72
Matthews, AE 158
Matthews, Jessie 166
Maurey, Nicole 133
Maverik Motion Pictures 132
Max Miller
AppreciationSociety 195,
196
Maxwell, James Clark 141
Maxwell, Lois 134
Maxwell, Paul 134
May, Janet 133
Mayer, Norah 92
Mayfield 35
Mayhew, Marie 103
Maynard, George 119, 133
Maynards 46
Mayor of Casterbridge, The
111, 164
Maypole Dance (Smith) 90
Maypole Dance (Wiliamson)
92
Mazda Fountain 52
MBX Productions 129
Me and My Girl 163
Me Without You 130, 191,
196, 199
219
Index
Meaney, Colm 137
Meat 139
Medak, Peter 134
Medienproduktion
Prometheus Filmgesellschaft
120
Medina, Patricia 119
Meijer, Julie 161, 169
Melbourne-Cooper, Arthur
93
Melford, Jakidawra 169
Melford, Mark 169
Melia, Joe 131
Méliès, Georges 9, 65, 83, 116,
181
Mellison, JB 58
Melnotte-Wyatt, Violet 52,
169, 190
Melrose Restaurant 195
Melrose, Matt and Lalla 169
Melville Road 178, 196
Melville, Alan 127, 169
Mendelsohn, Emil 42
Mendelssohn, Felix, and his
Hawaiian Serenaders 132
Mercia the Flower Girl 110
Mercury Theatre 160
Merton Park Studios 116, 124
Mesmerist, The, or Body and
Soul 90
Metfilm 126
Metro Cinema 34, 48, 189
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 14,
34, 38, 137, 149, 160, 166,
206
Metropole Hotel 33, 42, 60,
125, 169, 195
Metropolis 43
Metropolitan Opera 35, 53
Metroscopix 38, 58
MGM see Metro-GoldwynMayer
MGM Cinemas 16, 34, 47, 72
Middle Street 143, 162, 196
Middleston, Judy 209
Middleton, A L 70
Middleton, Guy 118, 170
Mid-Sussex Cinemas 190
Milder, Max 127
Miles Byrne Organisation 190
Miles, Frederick George 71
Miles’ market garden 60
Military Ride by a Lady Cyclist
92
Military Sports 92
Millar, Bert 43
Millar, Harold B 67, 170, 199
Miller and the Sweep, The 76,
88, 89, 113, 165
Miller, Arnold L 128, 131
Miller, Mandy 118, 133
Miller, Max 62, 113, 170, 191,
195, 196, 198
Milligan, Spike 132
Millions Like Us 148, 166, 199
Mills, Eric R 52, 170, 190
Mills, Hayley 122
Mills, Jack 134
Mills, John 122, 131
Mills, Stanley C 170
Milne, AA 152
Milne, Gordon Alexander 129
Milton Keynes 16
Milton, Harry 138
Mine, Monnie 86, 160
Miner’s Daughter, The 105
Minerva Films 152
Minnelli, Vincente 131
Minstrel Boy, The 170
Minuet 92
Miracle Films 120, 131
Mirren, Helen 121
MirrorMask 130, 195
Miss Ellen Terry series 89
Miss Norah Mayer, the QuickChange Dancer 92
220
Missiles from Hell 119
Mitchell, FC 50
Mixed Doubles 170
Mobile Movies 35
Model Dwellings 194
Modern Life? 123, 125, 128,
129, 131, 135, 136
Mohawk Minstrels/An Inci
dent on Brighton Pier 89,
156, 176
Molina, Alfred 123
Momentum Pictures 130
Mon Oncle 38
Mona Lisa 114, 130, 197
Monclare College 152
Mondo Macabro Movies 124
Monicelli, Mario 133
Monk in the Monastery Wine
Cellar, The 98
Monk in the Studio, The 98
Monk’s Macaroni Feast, The
98
Monk’s Ruse for Lunch, The
98
Monkey Business 173
Monocle: Me and Joe
Chamberlain, The 81, 95
Monopolies and Mergers
Commission 13
Montand, Yves 131
Montgomery, John 210
Montpelier Electric Theatres
51, 190
Montpelier Street 136, 196
Monty Python 160
Mooney, Mark 132
Moore, Decima 170, 197
Moore, Eva 170, 197
Moore, Julianne 124
Moore, Kenneth 15
Moore, Roger 70, 134, 176
Moore, Simon 136
Moorhead, Simon 130
Moran, Nick 119
More, Kenneth 125, 131
Moreline, Gary 120
Morell, André 133
Morey, Hal 133
Morgan, Diana 138
Morgan, Frederick W 56
Morgan, Guy 126
Morgan, Joan 151, 170
Morgan, Max 123
Morgan, Peter 137
Morgan, Sidney 13, 86, 151,
152, 158, 165, 171, 184
Morgan, Terence 171, 200
Morley Street 120, 196
Morley, Robert 137
Morrice, Walter 73
Morris, Christine S 135
Morris, Ernest 134
Morris, Lana 135
Morris, Oswald 137
Morris, Wayne 125, 130
Morrison, Blake 119
Morrison, James 51
Morrison, Steve 125
Morrison, William 66
Morrow, Al 126
Morrow, Geoff 124
Moss Enpires 59
Moss, Luke 120
Moth and Rust 112, 180
Mother Goose Nursery
Rhymes 98
Mother’s Day 139
Motion 130
Motion Picture Patent Com
pany (MPPC) 12, 13, 84
Motion Picture Producers and
Distibutors Asso cia tion
(MPPDA) 206
Motion Picture World 146
Motor Bandits, The 110
Moulin Rouge 154
Moulsecoomb 42
Moving a Piano 110
Moving Day 106
Moving Picture News 209
Moving Picture World 83, 84,
85, 179
Moyne, Lord 15
Mrs Brown Goes Home to
Her Mother 105
Mrs Fitzherbert 180
Mrs Fitzherbert 148
Muggins, VC 154, 169
Mulligan, Carey 119
Mullinger, Walter L 47, 159
Multicolor 146
multiscreen cinemas 16, 41
Mumford, Arthur 204
Mumford, Stanley J 86, 171,
202, 204
Munro, Janet 137
Murder Mistaken 122
Murphy, Robert 127
Murray, Barbara 123, 127
Murray, Pete 127
music hall 12
Musical Party, van Biene 75,
87
Musser, Charles 209
Mutoscope 30, 74, 194, 199
Muybridge, Eadweard 9
My Bare Lady 48
My Brighton and Hove 211
My Death is a Mockery 130
My Old Dutch 64
My Wife’s Dog 107
Myers, Barbara 139
Myriorama 60
N’Dour, Mickael 127
Nagra 115
Naples 80
Naples is a Battlefield 154
Napoléon 73
Narizzano, Silvio 129
Nashville Teens, The 119
National Film and Television
Archive 78, 89, 212
National Film Theatre 38,
174, 178
National House 62, 199
National Media Museum 142,
212
National Studios,
Borehamwood 138
National Studios, Elstree 119
NATO 115, 198
Natural Colour Kinematograph Company 12, 38, 82,
109, 145, 146, 168, 169, 178,
181, 187, 192, 203
Natural Colour Portraiture
107
natural history 177
Natural Photography Studio
200
Nature’s Hidden Beauties—
Pond Life 107
Neagle, Anna 57, 63, 152, 169,
170, 171, 184, 195
Neame, Elwin 154
Neame, Ronald 122, 154
Nearne, Jacqueline 171
Neeson, Liam 136
Neill, Sam 136
Nelson’s Monument and
Trafalgar Square on Nelson
Day 89
neon signs 55, 71
Nesbitt, John Robinson 188
Never Fear 168
Never Let Go 56
Nevill Road 196
New Bio Company 168
New Blood Film 132
New Church Road 196
New Coronation 12, 34, 49
New Empire Cinema 12, 34,
54
New England Quarter 42
New England Road 126
New Kinema 12, 34, 39, 41,
61, 159, 163, 191
New Road 196
New Scala Cinema 34, 51
New York 10
New York Herald 173
New York Herald Tribune
205
New York Times 164, 207
Newall, Guy 171
Newhart, Bob 131
Newman, Bernard 119
news cinemas 52
newsreels 140
Newton, Lord 206, 208
Nicholas, Eileen 121
Nicholls David 119
Nicholson, Jack 131
Nickelodeon Movies 119
Night and Day 71, 113
Night Darkens the Streets 137
Night is Young, The (1935)
166
Night is Young, The (2009)
131
Night Warrior: Deadly Jade
131
Night We Got the Bird, The
131, 167, 198, 199
Nightingale, Michael 171
Nighy, Bill 120
Nine Till Six 170
Niteshades, The 119
Niven, David 15, 176, 180
No Bathing Allowed 99, 155
No Hiding Place 161
No One was Saved 129
Norfolk Cinema 33, 36, 40,
41, 47, 61, 194
Norman, Jack 205
Norman, Leslie 134
North Atlantic 139
North End House,
Rottingdean 122
North Laine 114, 121
North Road 114, 196
North Street, Brighton 114,
196
North Street,Portslade 197
Norton, CGoodwin 178
Nosseck, Max 137
Not So Quiet on the Western
Front 71
Nottingham Evening Post 211
Nottingham Odeon 16
nouvelle vague 115, 116
Novello, Ivor 149
Novelty Electric Theatre 36,
62, 66, 179, 193, 199
Noy, Wilfred 172
Nudes of the World 131
Nugent, Baron 172, 205
Nurse’s Devotion, A 110
Nursing the Baby 89
Nyman, Kenneth A 38, 51, 52,
172
O&P Cinemas (Brighton) 44,
70, 190
O’Brien, Ian 132
O’Brien, Joseph EG 58
O’Connolly, Jim 134
O’Connor, Bridget 134
O’Hara Gerry 118
O’Hara, Gerry 118
O’Neil, Paddy 132
O’Shea, Milo 129
O’Sullivan, Richard 133
Ocean Rooms 120,196
Ocean Waves in a Storm 87
Odd Shoe 139
Oddie, Bill 150
Odeon Car Club 64
Odeon cinemas 16
Odeon Hove 34, 41, 52
Odeon Kemp Town 33, 34,
40, 42, 62, 69, 198
Odeon King’s Road 34, 64
Odeon Kingswest 14, 34, 36,
44, 62-63, 119, 194, 199
Odeon Nottingham 16
Odeon Theatres 189, 190
Odeon West Street 31, 33, 34,
41, 43, 63-64, 174, 199
Oedipus Rex 109
Off Duty Pleasures 49
Ogden, Stan 186
Oh That Collar Button! 98
Oh! What a Lovely War 57,
67, 115, 131, 154, 172, 175,
199, 199
Oh! What a Surprise! 103
Okay for Sound 149
Old Bailey 162
Old Chorister, The 103
Old Fort Road 191, 198, 204
Old King Cole and Blackbird
Pie 101
Old Lady Tries to Thread Her
Needle 98
Old London Road 42
Old Maid’s Valentine, The 94,
150
Old Steine 126, 132, 135, 197
Olivier, Laurence 43, 59, 64,
131, 138, 154, 158, 170, 171,
172, 17, 198
O’Loughlin, Alister 129
Olympia 9
Olympic Kine Trading
Company 86, 188, 204
On a Clear Day You Can See
Forever 131, 195, 198
On Brighton Beach 87
On Brighton Pier 102, 155
On Stony Ground 139
One Good Turn 131, 197
One Heavenly Night 166
£100 Reward, The 107
Onions, S C 131
Open Road Films 119
Open Road, The 146, 161
open-air film screenings 46,
74
Opening Night 153
Operation North Star 130
Optimum Releasing 121
Orange Peel, The 106, 186
Orbison, Roy 59
organs, cinema 46, 52, 69, 70,
71
Original Cinematograph
Company 143, 200
Orion, Burgess Hill 37, 48
Ormonde, John 132
Orphans, The 106
Orr, Chris 132
Orrells, Brian 123
Orton, Joe 129
Osborne Villas 197
Oscars see Academy Awards
Our Army 74
Our Farmyard Friends 107
Our Floral Friends 107
Our Gem of a Cook 109
Our Navy 74
Our New Errand Boy 84, 104,
185, 195, 196
Outlaw of the Night. An 109
Over the Garden Wall 96
Overlord 174
Overmass, M 61
Ovingdean 11, 207
Owen, Clare 134
Owens, Patricia 118, 126
Oxen Ploughing 92
Oxford Music Hall 125
Cinema-by-Sea
Index
P&R Entertainments 55
Pa Takes Up Physical Culture
84, 106
Pa’s Comment on the
Morning News 98
Pabst, GW 175
Packham, BC 54
Page, Bert 158
Page, Lisa 158
Page, Yvonne 157-158
Palace Pier 64, 121, 122, 123,
124, 125, 126, 129, 130, 132,
137, 153, 161, 166, 197
Palace Theatre, London 145
Palladium Cinema 12, 14, 31,
33, 34, 41, 64, 86, 156, 169,
189, 193, 194
Pallos, Steven 130
Palmeira Picture Palace 42,
194
Palmer, Ernest 135, 138
Palmer, Valentine 124
Pan Productions 118, 134
Panatrope 61
Pandora Gallery 10, 27, 57,
66, 195
Pantascope 34
Pantomime Girls Having a
Lark 98
Paradox 59
Paramount 14, 58, 152, 170,
206
Paramount Pictures 119, 131
Paré, Liza Katselas 133
Pareezer, Archibald Lionel 43
Paris 10
Paris Cinema 31, 33, 41, 49, 190
Park Crescent Place 197
Park Lane Films 130
Parker, Cecil 15, 125, 172
Parkes Productions 118
Parkes, Daniel 118, 139
ParkSquare 197
Parkyn, Leslie 129
Parry, G Rhodes 65
Parry, Natasha 123
Parton, Bill 132
Passenger Train 88
Passport to Fame 65
Passport to Pimlico 179
Patch, Wally 138
Patcham 42, 122
Pathé Animated Gazette 51,
65, 86
Pathé Communications 47, 72
Pathé Frères 13, 32, 82, 84,
138, 141, 176
Pathé News 140, 171
Pathé Super News Gazette 71
Pathé, Charles 83, 84
Pathé, Emil 84
Pathéscope 86
Pathetone Weekly 71
Patterson, Danny 123
Patterson, Jamie 123, 135
Patterson, Willi 124
Paul, R W 10, 27, 28, 74, 75,
82, 83, 113, 149, 172, 195
Pavilion (Chelmsford) 53, 190
Pavilion Buildings 120, 197
Pavilion Cinema, Peace haven
12, 34, 39, 41, 66, 153, 198
Pavilion Cinema, Portslade
12, 34, 41, 39, 61, 66, 163,
174, 197
Pavilion Gardens 196
Pavilion Street 135, 197
Pavilion Wine and Music
Rooms 125
Payne, Cynthia 136
Peace Statue 130, 195
Peace, David 137
Peacock, Kali 124
Peacock, Kerry 124
Peall, Ernest William Pashley
172
Cinema-by-Sea
Pearson, George 151
Peccadillo Pictures 135
Peeps into Nature’s Realm
109, 173
Peerless:Memories from the
West Pier 139
Pembroke Crescent 197
Penalty King, The 132
Penemunde 119, 198
Penny Points to Paradise 15,
132, 191, 194, 195, 197, 199
Pentagon Pictures 138
Penultimate Picture Palace
Company 53
People’s Picture Palace 34, 44
Pepper’s Ghost 38, 90
Perelman, S J 172
Performing Arts 129
Perrymount Cinema,
Haywards Heath 190
Persey Jonny 126
Persuaders, The 117, 134
Pertwee. Roland 138, 173, 193
Peschek, Julius 29
Pete Walker Film Productions
123
Peter Pan 56
Peter Pan playground 132,
195
Petiger, Louis 199
Petley, Frank E 86, 173
Petticoat Politics 47
Pfenninger, Otto 58, 144, 163,
165, 173, 194, 199, 210
Phantom Ride 90
phantom rides 77, 177
Philips, John I 134
Phillips, Arnold 137
Phoenix-i Productions 134
Photograph Taken from Our
Area Window, A 95
Photographic Contortion, A
96
Photographic Convention of
Great Britain 144
Photographic News 162
Photographing a Ghost 90
photomiscoscopy 179, 199
Photophone 12, 44
Piccadilly Pictures 123
Picture House 61, 159, 191
Picture Playhouse 48
Picturedrome, Edward Street,
Brighton 34, 71, 194
Picturedrome, Portslade 34,
61, 66
Picturedrome, Western Road
34, 51, 152, 200
Picturehouse Cinemas 53
Pierrot Troupe/Minstrels at
the Sea-side 89
Piery, Amanda 135
Piette, Jason 133
pig breeding 159
Pig’s Family, The 139
Pike, Oliver 82, 107, 109, 173,
176
‘Pimpernel’ Smith 173
Pinewood Studios 14
Ping-Pong 99
Pink Coconut 59
Pink Panther, The 61, 169
Pink String and Sealing Wax
138
Pioneer Film Agency 188
Plaisir, Le 46, 52
Planet of the Apes 139, 160
Plastigram 38, 46
Plato’s Breaking Point 132
Playground Express 139
Playhouse Cinema 34, 48
Playhouse Repertory Theatre
48, 199
Plaza 61, 191
Pleasance, Donald 120
Pleasure Palace 59
Plebs, The 119
Ploughman’s Lunch, The 53,
132, 194
Plumpton Steeplechase 99
Pohlmann, Eric 125, 134
Polarised Light 109
Policeman and Burglar 98
Policeman and Cook 87
Policeman, the Cook and the
Copper, The 91
Polite Lunatic, The 104
Political and Economic
Planning 209
Polygram 124
Polytel 132
Poole’s Myriorama 60
Pope, Dick 119, 125
Popple, Simon 209,210
Porcelain Film 121
Porter, Edwin S 12
Portinari, Paul 131
Portland Road 197
Portman, Eric 138
Portobello Studios 120
Portslade gasworks 119, 191
Portsmouth Express 89
Portsmouth Ferry 91
Postcard from Brighton, A
139
Potter, Paul M 173
Powell, Michael 15, 176
Powell, William 151
Powis Grove 120
Powis Road 136
Powis Road 197
Powis Square 126
Practical Joke, A 91
Pratt, Roger 124, 130
Premier Inn 47
Presley, Elvis 134
Pressburger, Emeric 15, 176
Preston Barracks 56
Preston Manor 151
Preston Park 122, 197
Preston, Sir Harry 62
PrestonCircus 16, 197
Prestwich Manufacturing
Company 82
Price, Dennis 15, 118, 128,
137
Price, Vincent 70
Pride of Nations, The 187
Priestley, JB 43
Prince Albert 136
Prince Leopold of SaxeCoburg 125
Prince Monolulu 127
Prince Regent 125, 137, 138
Prince’s Cinema 12, 31, 33, 34,
39, 34, 60, 67-69, 151, 153,
170, 191, 196, 199
Prince’s Electric Theatre 34,
67
Prince’s Film Theatre 34, 67,
189
Prince’s Imperial Picture
Palace and Theatre 34, 66,
197
Prince’s News Theatre 34, 67
Prince’s Place 197
Princess Fitz 138
Princess Hall 44
Prior, Andy 129
Prisoner, The 167, 171, 183
Private Eye 64
Private Life of Henry VIII,
The 70, 165
Problems of an Actor 153
Procession of Sunday School
Children 92
Prochnow, Jürgen 123
Prodigal Son, or Ruined at the
Races, The 104
Production Code Administration 121, 134, 137
Professor Lust 56
Professor Reddish Performs
his Celebrated Bicycle Dive
from Brighton West Pier
99, 199
Professor’s Great Discovery,
The 107
Profile of Fear 132
Progress Film Company 86,
149, 151, 152, 154, 156, 158,
159, 165, 167, 170, 171, 179,
187, 188, 199, 204
Project: Assassin 132
Promenade 139
Promenade at Brighton, The
87
Prouder, Mr 54
Proudlock, Roger 118
Providence House 194
Provincial Cinemato graph
Theatres (PCT) 15, 68, 69,
172, 190
Prudential House 47
Pryce, Jonathan 132
Pucker Up! 139
Pulborough 35
Pull Back Camera 130
Pumphrey, Adam 128, 129
Puritan Maiden’s UpsideDown Dance, The 94
Puttnam, David 209
Puzzled Bather and His
Animated Clothes, The 96
QPlanes 64
Quadrophenia 72, 113, 114,
132, 176, 194, 195, 196
Quarrelsome Neighbours 102
Quatermass II 132
Quebec Street 128, 197
Queen Christina 172
Queen is Crowned, A 64
Queen of Spades, The 154
Queen Victoria’s Diamond
Jubilee Procession 89
Queen Victoria’s Funeral 97
Queen’s Electric Theatre 41,
43,, 62, 85, 146, 187, 190,
199
Queen’s Park 121, 136, 197
Queen’s Picture Theatre 43
Queen’s Road 114, 123, 197
Quested, John 118
Quick Shave and Brush-Up, A
94
Quiet Mary Fish Momma 139
Quin, John 138
Quinn, James 174
Quirke, Nicholas 132
Quirke, Pauline 133
Quiz Show 176
quota, screen 13, 14, 208
Rabbits, Sheep, A Carrot for
the Donkey, The 106
race course 121
Rackham, John 133, 135
Radclyffe, Sarah 136
Radford, Basil 138
Radio City Music Hall 32, 69
Radio Parade of 1935 157
Rae Bros 90
Rae, Stephen 124
Ragazza con la Pistola, La 133
Raised from the Ranks 107
Raker. Hugh 130
Raleigh, H M 138
Randegger, Alberto 164
Randell, Ron 126
Randle, Frank 113, 150
Ranieri, William 139
Ranjitsinhji, Prince 91
Rank Organisation 16, 34, 43,
62, 69, 122, 125, 127, 136
Rattigan, Terence 121. 174,
196
rave 53
Ravensbourne Avenue 197
Rawi, Ousama 120
Rawlinson, Herbert 174
Rawson, Alfred Cooper 46,
56, 63, 174
Ray Allister’s biography 138
RCAPhotophone 34, 51
Reach for the Sky 179
Reade, Helen 129
Real Sea Serpents, The 104
Reaping 106
Rebecca 113, 137
Reconciliation, The 107
Red Cloud Film 132
Red Letter (2008) 139
Red Letter (2011) 139
Red Rooster scare 84
Red Shoes, The 138
Reddish, Professor 174, 199
Redemption Road 133
Redgrave, Corin 131, 133
Redgrave, Michael 131, 138,
176
Redgrave, Vanessa 131
Redmond, Moira 127
Reed, Carol 15, 137
Reed, Maxwell 123
Reed, Michael 129
Reed, Stanley 67
Reeve, Ada 58
Reeve, Douglas 174
Refreshments 109
Regan, Chris 135
Regan, Peter 123
Regal Cinema 33, 43, 200
Regency Society 196
Regency Square 121, 127, 131,
197
Regent ballroom 40
Regent Cinema 14, 15, 16, 31,
33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 51,
63, 68-70, 128, 149, 152,
153, 165, 174, 175, 189, 190,
197
Regent Dance Hall 128
Regent Street Polytechnic 9
regulation 30, 36
Reith Fellows, Mrs L 48, 74
Relph, Simon 132
Remick, Lee 129
Remorse: A tragedy in five
acts 102
Rennie, Michael 119, 137, 138
Rennison, Louise 119
Reno, Jean 123
Renown Pictures 125
Rent Collector, The 107
Reservist Before the War and
After the War, A 80, 100,
185
Revelation Films 132
Review of the British Navy
106
Rex News Theatre 34, 36, 49,
196
Reynolds, Charles 127, 205
Reynolds, P V 61, 66, 163,
174, 195
Rhodes, Marjorie 122, 126
Rice, Don, & his Gypsy Girls
Band 57
Rice, Joan 131
Richard III (1995) 115, 133, 198
Richard III (2005) 114, 133,
193, 200
Richard, Cliff 55
Richards, Julian D 56, 174,
189
Richards, Mary 136
Richards, Randolph E 56, 174
Richardson, Miranda 136
Richardson, Ralph 43, 64,
131, 175, 179
Richmond, Robin 58
Rieley, Chris 135
Rigg, Fred 187
221
Index
Riley, Hugh 47
Riley, Sam 121
Ring-a-ring of Roses 89
Riseborough, Andrea 121
Ritz Cinema 34, 40, 61, 190,
194
Ritz, Seaford 70
Rival Barbers 84, 104
Rival Clothiers, The 102, 143
Rival Cyclists, The 107
Riverside, Shoreham 198
Rivron, Rowland 133
Rix, Brian 131
RKO 64, 113, 137, 161
RLT Productions 135
Road Movies 130
Road to London, The 170
Robark 132
Robe, The 64
Robert Gordon Cinemas 44,
70, 190
Roberts, EC 51
Robey, George 64, 175, 191,
196
Robey, Rachel 129
Robinson, Cardew 123
Robinson, Dean 130
Robinson, John 126
Robinson Crusoe 98
Robot 139
Robson, Flora 67, 137, 175,
196, 200
Roc, Patricia 138
Rock Around the Clock 37
Rockett, Edwin Houghton 71,
175
Roddam, Franc 132
Roddick, John 124
Rodgers, RA 146
Roffe, Melloney 132
Rogers, George 83
Rogers, Ginger 137
Rogers, Peter 122
Rogue’s Yarn 133, 169
Rogues of the Turf 112, 164
Roldvale 123
roller skating 31, 59
Roller, D J 136
Rollins, Jack 122
Romain, Yvonne 134
Roman Crescent 142, 178,
198, 201
Romegially, Rinaldo Walter
Reynolds 205
Röntgen, Wilhelm 27
Room at the Top 154
Rope 164
Ropetackle Arts Centre
Rosary, The 149
Rose, Albert 58
Rose, Jack 118
Rose, Matthew 127
Rose, William 125
Rosenthal, Joe 175
Rosetta Stone 141
Rosier Films 53
Ross, Christopher 129
Rothafel, Samuel 32, 69
Rothbury Cinema 1, 34, 37,
40, 41, 62, 70, 128, 190, 193
Rothbury Cinema 119, 128
Rothwell, Alan 129
Rothwell, Jerry 121, 126
Rothwell, Talbot 122
Rottingdean 137
Rottingdean 88, 113
Rottingdean Electric Railway
88
Rough Sea 87
Roundhay Garden Scene 9
Roxy, New York 32
Royal Albion Hotel 130
Royal Court Theatre 167, 176
Royal Courts of Justice 146
Royal Crescent 198
Royal Flying Corps 161
222
Royal Institution 141, 144
Royal Mail 61
Royal Newburgh Assembly
Rooms 125
Royal Pavilion 114, 115, 198
Royal Pavilion 121, 124, 125,
127, 131, 133, 137
Royal Photographic Society
185
Royal Shakespeare Company
176
Royal Society of Arts 145, 178
Royal Sussex County Hospital
71, 177, 184
Royal Sussex Regiment 47,
189
Royal Tierney Picture Theatre
34, 51, 71, 175, 193
RTL Productions 172, 205
Rudd, Tom 126
Ruddin, Anah 132
Rudge, Arthur Roebuck 161
Ruffle’s Imperial Bioscope 64
Runaway Knock, The 91
Russell Square 114, 121, 199
Russell, Jane 64
Rutherford, Margaraet 15, 129
Rutherford, T Easton 47
Rutland Court 196
Ryan, Maureen A 121
Saarländischer Rundfunk 171
Sabotage 151
Sacco, Loretta 46
Sadler, Alfred J 71, 175
Sadoul, Georges 10, 116, 125,
175, 209
Sailing and Car 89
Sailing and Motor Boat Scenes
at Southwick 106
Sailing Boat 89
Sailing Boats 92
Sailing Yachts at Hastings 89
Sainsbury’s 55, 56, 200
St Ann’s Well Gardens 30, 81,
82, 141, 152, 157, 177, 193,
198, 198, 201-202
St Aubyn’s 199
St Bartholomew’s Church 126,
191
St George’s Road 199
St Helen’s churchyard 194
St James’s Kinema 52
St James’s Street 120, 199
St John, Betta 118
St Kilda, Its People and Birds
107, 173
St Leonard’s Church 177
St Mark’s Street 125, 199
St Mary’s Convent 134, 195
St Nicholas Parish Rooms and
Sunday School 205
St Nicholas Road 199
St Paul’s Church 63
Salaire de la Peur, La 38
Sallis Benney Theatre
Salvage, Glenn 129
Salvation Army 54, 71, 193
Sambo 100, 156
Sampson, Catherine 135
Samson, Ivan 175
Samuel Goldwyn Films 130
Samuelson, GB 151, 170
San Giacomo, Laura 136
San Quentin 49
Sanchez, Sofia 118
Sanders & Crowhurst 156,
173, 188, 200
Sanders, Henry 108, 176, 188,
200
Sanders, J & C 66
Sandford, Christopher 123
Sandrich, Mark 137
Sandwiches, The 93
Sansum, Ben 136
Santa Claus 76, 91, 177
Sargent, Thomas Henry 170
satellite television 16
Saunders, George 125
Sausages 104
Savage, Glenn 134
Saved by a Dream 108
Saville, Philip 125
Saville, Victor 159
Savoy Cinema-Theatre/ABC
14, 31, 33, 34, 38, 39,40, 41,
64, 71-72, 121, 132, 175,
177, 189
Savoy/ABC Cinema 121, 132
Sayer, Hilda 86
Scala Cinema, Brighton 14,
33, 51, 152, 200
Scala Cinema, Burgess Hill
61, 174
Scala Kinemacolor 190
Scala Theatre, London 38, 145
Scandal Over the Teacups 94,
150
Scarborough, Victoria 119
Scared Stiff 66
Scarfield, Ross 123
Scarlet Wooing, The 111
Scene on the West Pier 89,
199
Scenes on the Beach at
Brighton 97
Schall, David 124
Schermerhorn, John R 144
Schlom, Herman 137
Schnekenbühl, Oliver 132
Schofield, Johnnie 134
Schofield, Johnny 134, 156,
176
School for Danger 171
Schweik’s New Adventure 118
Science Museum 142
Scientific American 162
Scimitar Films 123
Scofield, Paul 176
Scorsese, Martin 136
Scots Guards 63
Scott Thomas, Kristin 126, 131
Scott, Ann 132
Scott, Giles Gilbert 42
Scott, Richard 120
Scouts to the Rescue 109, 180
Scrambling Urchins 87
Scratch as Scratch Can 109
Screen Archive South East
(SASE) 212
Screen Gems 164
Screen Publicists Guild 164
Scriven, Eddie 44, 54, 86, 109,
176
Scriven, Elizabeth 54
Scriven, Harry 44, 54, 57, 71,
176
Scudamore, Margaret 176
Sea Serpent pub 154, 194
Seaford 134
Seager, Chris 119
Sea-going Car, The 95
Seagrove, Jenny 124
Sealife centre 119, 126, 135
Sealife Centre 44, 195
Sealight Film Company 86,
179, 187, 204
Searchlight Films 128, 131
Searle, Francis 125
Secombe, Harry 132
Second World War 15, 34, 113
Secret Agent 151
Secret, The 133, 160, 195, 199,
205
Selbourne Road 177, 198
Selfridge, Gordon 206
Selig 84, 85, 185, 188
Selinger, Dennis 176
Sellers, Peter 132
Sellers, Peter 15
Sensurround sound 46
Serafinowicz, Peter 134
Seresin, Ben 123
Sergeant Bilko 16
Serkis, Andy 121
Seven Dials 126
Sewell, Rufus 123
Sewell, Vernon 119, 126
Sewell, Vernon 119, 126, 133,
138
Sewn 139
Sexy Couriers 49
Seyler, Athene 125
Seymour Street 199
Seyrig, Delphine 120
Shadow of Fear 134, 191, 194,
195, 198
Shah, Pooja 135
Shakespeare, William 133
Sham Sword Swallower, The
105
Shannon, Del 55
Sharp, Burt 58
Sharp, Don 129
Sharrock, Ken 133
Shaughnessy, Alfred 125
Shaw, Sebastian 176
She Don’t Look Back 139
She Would Be a Suffragette
107
Shearn, Antony 130
Sheckman, Sol 55, 189
Sheen, Michael 137
Sheep Washing 92
Sheepcote Valley 131, 198
Sheffield, George 52, 61, 159
Shepherd, Melanie 124
Shepherd, Ross 126
Sheppard, Jack 57
Sheppard, W B 192, 202
Sheridan, Dinah 125
Sherman Anti-Trust Act 84
Sherry’s Dance Hall 33, 59
Shiel, Steven 135
Shilling, Donna 135
Shiner, Ronald 131
Ship from Shanghai, The 58
Ship Street Gardens 198
Shirley Drive 168s
Shoreham Airport 119, 120,
123, 130, 133, 198
Shoreham Beach 119
Shoreham Beach studio 13,
46, 86, 187, 198, 204
Shoreham harbour 125,134
Shoreham power station 119,
134, 198
Shotter, Constance 138
Should Parents Tell? 37, 55
Showman’s Dream,The 110
Si Litvinoff Film Production
118
Sick Kitten, The 101
Siegel, Don 120
Siegel, Rick 121
Sign Writer, The 89, 177
Silencer, The 134
Silent Whistle, A 139
Silent Witness, The 52
Silver Screen Silent Voices
212
Silwood Street 198
Sim, Alistair 15, 125, 128,
138, 208
Sim, Sheila 67
Simkins, David 211
Simon the Cellarer 88
Simons, Theo 53
Simpson, Alan 129
Sims, Joan 122, 136
Sinclair, J A 200
Sinden, Donald 129
Sing-Along-a Rocky Horror 73
Sing-Along-a Sound of Music
73
Singer not the Song, The 61
Singer, Campbell 126
Singer-Lee, Aaron 127
Singing Fool, The 73
Singleton, Arthur 61
Sinnett, Claudine 129
Sir Roger de Coverley 92
Sisling, Bunny 61
Six Grand Slam 139
Sixty Glorious Years 152, 171
Sixty Six 134
Skin Game 128
Skint 124
Skylark Productions 123
Skywalker, Anakin 176
Slash Wildly and the Cutthroats 119
Sleep 139
Sleep Long My Love 127
Sleeping Lovers, The 93
Slice Films 120
Slindon 35
Sloper, Ally 11, 90, 91, 92
Sloper’s Visit to Brighton 92
Smart, CVM 36, 74
Smiley, Michael 124
Smith, Alfred 65
Smith, C Aubrey 152, 170,
177, 191, 199
Smith, Clea 135
Smith, Dorothea 142
Smith, Ernest 71, 177
Smith, F Percy 110, 177
Smith, George Albert 10, 11,
12, 30, 38, 43, 52, 65, 75-78,
80-82, 88-110, 116, 125, 141,
150, 152, 155, 156, 157, 159,
163, 164, 165, 167, 169, 174,
176, 177-178, 180, 187, 191,
192, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198,
201, 210
Smith, Harold 142, 178
Smith, Imogen 120
Smith, Maggie 131, 133
Smith, Murray 123
Smithard, Ben 137
Smokescreen 134, 194, 197, 205
SMSuper Cinemas 44
Snapshotting an Audience 94
Snowball Express 64
Snowden, Philip 207
Snowman, The 139
Società Italiana Cines 84, 85
Society for Psychical Research
177
Soldier’s Pet, The 106
Soldier’s Return, The 80, 83,
100, 193
Solution by Phone 134, 176
Some Fun 110
Somerhill Road 198
Somerville, J Baxter 50, 179
Something Wicked This Way
Comes 154
Sonego, Rodolpho 133
Sony Vegas Pro 115
Sopocy, Martin 12, 177, 210
Sorry, Can’t Stop 109
Sound of Music, The 33, 43,
69, 73
sound, introduction of 14
sound-on-disc 14, 45, 53, 61
Sous le Ciel de Paris 57
South Coast Road 198
South Pacific 46
South Road, Preston 198
South-Eastern Banking
Company 46
Southern Counties Theatres 55
Southern FM 193
Southern Publishing Company
66
SouthernEnterprises 58
Southview Road 198
Southwick 141
Spaceman and King Arthur,
The 74
Spall, Timothy 137
Speer, Fannie 190
Cinema-by-Sea
Index
Speer, Hugo 129
Speer, W Harold 43, 62, 66,
85, 86, 110, 146, 173, 179,
187, 192, 194, 199, 200
Spence, Basil 57
Spice Factory 133
Spiders on a Web 94
Spirograph 181
Spitta, Edmund J 82, 107, 109,
179, 195, 199
Sporting Chance 134, 199
Spring Cleaning 102
Spring, Frank 86, 171, 179, 187
Spruell, Sam 129
Squaring the Account 109
SSBrighton 62, 63, 199
Stadelmann, Mr 61, 159
Stage Door 138
Stage Year Book, The 210
Stagescreen 126
Stainton, Philip 179
Standard Life Investments 63
Stanley, Lorraine 129
Stanmer House 115, 123, 130,
198
Stanmer Park 131
Stannard, Eliot 138
Stanton, Lloyd 133
Star Crash 56
Star Electric Picture Palace 34,
72-73, 192
Star is Born, A 46
Star Wars 41
Star Wars: Episode VI—
Return of the Jedi 176
Stars and the Stones, The 139
State Department, US 208
Station Street 198
Steel Mill Pictures 129
Stella Artois 46
Stellman, Martin 132
stencilling, colour 141
Stephens, Robert 125
Stephenson, Juliet 119
stereophony 56, 64
Stereoscopograph 38, 44
stereoscopy 31, 38, 44, 47, 52,
53, 55, 58, 71
Stereo-Techniques 38, 52, 172
Sterke, Jeanette 124
Steward, AR 54
Steward, Ernest 122, 129
Stewed 135
Steyning 35
Steyning Union Children’s
Home 72
Stiletto 139
Still Picture Productions 173
Still Worthy of the Name 107
Sting 132
Stock, Nigel 121
Stolen Heirlooms 167
Stomp 46, 136
Stomp Live 136
Stone, Edward A 46
Stone, Sid 118
Stone, Terry 135
Stop Thief! 11, 97, 185
Storm at Hastings Pier 89
Stormare, Peter 123
Stormont, Leo 109
Storrington 35
Story of an Egg 107
Stowaway, The 103, 169
Stradling, Harry 131
Stranger than Fiction 167
Strasberg, Ivan 136
Straughan, Peter 134
Strausfeld, Peter 179
Straw Man, The 135, 195, 197
Street Scene 87
Street, George 138
Street, Sarah 209
Streisand, Barbra 131
Strick, Joseph 37, 48
Stringer & Dinnick 152
Cinema-by-Sea
Strip Poker 120
Strong, Tony 127
Struck. 107
Stück vom Himmel, Ein 139
Student and the House maid,
The 103
Studio Canal 134, 136
studios 178, 201
Study in Skarlit, A 110
Study in Waves and Spray 89
Sturridge, Charles 126
Sudeley Place 48, 199
Sudeley Place Picture House
34, 48
Sulkin, Gregg 134
Sullivan Tim 126
Summer Rain 135, 195
Summer Rain Films 135
Sun, The Place and the Girl,
The 131
Sunday Entertainments Act
1932 36
Sunday Night at the London
Palladium 180
Sunday opening 35
Sunny South Film Com pany
46, 86, 156, 158, 163, 175,
187, 204
Sunshine After Storm 107
Super Cinerama 60, 194
super-cinemas 14
SuperScope 64
Supreme Court 84
Suspected 139
Sussex Advertiser 211
Sussex Constabulary 137
Sussex County Cricket
Ground 193
Sussex County Cricketers 91
Sussex Daily News 27, 165, 211
Sussex King’s Militia 157
Sussex Ox Wagon, A 92
Sussex Photo History 211
Sussex Picturedrome Com
pany 42, 46, 52, 53, 66, 152,
153, 190, 199
Sussex Square 163, 199
Sussex Telegraph 211
Sussex Terrace 119
Sussex Theatres Company 47
Suter, ER 46
Suter’s Yard 46
Sutherland, Frank 180
Suzman, Janet 120
Swan Downer Charity School
193
Swan Downer School 123
Swans 106
Sweet and Twenty 111
Swift, James 57
Swimming in Circles 135
Swinburne, Nora 137
Swinburne, Nora 159, 171,
180
Swing Time 56
Swiss Gardens, Shoreham 169
Switchback Railway 92
Sword Dance 92
Sydney Box Productions 137
Syntok 34, 54
Tabori, George 136
Tabori, Paul 118
Tainted Heart, The 139
Take a Powder 135, 180. 186,
191, 205
Talbot, Frederick A 209
Talbot, Kenneth 118
Tambourine Dancing Quartet
98
Tan Lines 135
Tartans of the Scottish Clans
105
Tate Britain 173
Tate Bros 188
Tate Modern 166
Tate, Catherine 134
Tatler 43
Tautou, Audrey 123
Taylor, Donald 135
Taylor, Elizabeth 137
Taylor, J E 44
Taylor, Larry 135
Taylor, Neville 57
Taylor, Shane 121
Taylor, Taylor & Hobson 168
Tearing 93
Teasing Grandpa 97
Technicolor 146
teddy boys 37
Tee, A H 142, 180, 190, 198,
202
Teenage Lovers 56
Teenland 135
Telekinema 38, 52
Telephone Romance, A 96
Tele-Theatre 57
television 15, 35
television, large screen 70, 72
Telscombe 134
Telscombe Cliffs 199, 199
Temperance Seven 167
Temple Street 119, 199
Temple-Smith, John 126
Ten Commandments, The 33,
43
Ten Dead Men 123
Ten Dead Men 135, 196
10,000 Cigarettes 136
Tenacity 139
Tennyson, Charles 206
Terra Firma Capital Partners
63
Terrell, Thomas 210
Terrors of the Deep 107
Terry, Ellen 89, 125, 170
Thamar, Tilda 130
That Awful Cigar 98
That Terrible Fly 107
Theatre of Souls 139
Theatre Royal 10, 30, 34, 50,
73, 75, 165, 179, 196
Theatrographe 10, 29, 73, 172
They Do Such Things at
Brighton 93
They Forgot the Game keeper
103
They Saved London 119
Things to Come 165, 168
Third Avenue 132, 199
39 Steps, The 151
This is not England, This
Brighton 139
This One’s For RnR 123
This Was a Woman 170
This Week of Grace 160
Thomas, Andrew 119
Thomas, Basil 131
Thomas, D B 210
Thomas, Gerald 122
Thomas, James
Thomas, Ralph 129
Thomas-Rogers Productions
122
Thompson, E J J 60
Thompson, J W 57
Thompson, Kristin 12, 177,
209
Thompson, Sylvanus 146
Thompson, Walter Watson 50
Thomson, John 133
Thorburn, June 122
Thorndike, Sybil 180
Thorp, Molly 118
Thorpe, A& W 44
Those Troublesome Boys 100
Three Coins in the Fountain
55
3D see stereoscopy
Three Kings 119
Three Novel Railways 95
Three on a Weekend 137
Ticehurst Institute 35
Tickner, Clive 132
Tidy Street 199
Tiernan, Andrew 133
Tierney Arms 71
Tightrope Pictures 120
Tigon 125
Tigon Film Distributors 123
Tilley of Bloomsbury 152
Tilley, Vesta 158
Tilley’s horse bus stables 44,
195
Tillotson, Johnny 55
Times, The 211
Tincture of Iron 110
Tipsy-Topsy-Turvy (Reversal)
89, 177
Tisdall, Chris 135
Titanic 41
Tivoli Cinema 12, 33, 34, 39,
40, 51, 73-74, 152, 153, 155,
159, 164, 165, 190, 192, 198,
200
Tivoli Enterprises (Hove) 190
To Brighton with Gladys 138
To Kill a Kieran 139
To Let 139
To the Public Danger 164
Todd, Richard 177
Tom Jones 153
Tomelty, Joseph 136
Tomlinson, Lionel 135
Tomlinson, Lionel 180, 194,
205
Tommy and the Mouse in the
Art School 98
Tommy Atkins and his Harriet
on a Bank Holiday 98
Tomorrow 136
Tomorrow at Midnight 50
Tomorrow will be Friday 88, 97
Tongdean Avenue 170, 199
Too Much of a Good Thing
98
Top Hat and Tails 55
Top of the Pops 113
Top Rank 16, 48, 60, 62
Topical Budget 140
Topsy-Turvy Dance by Three
Quaker Maidens 94
Totino, Salvatore 123
Toulmin, Vanessa 209, 210
tourism 16
Tower of London 11, 107
Tower Point 58, 196
Trace 139
Tracking the Baby 110
Trade Facilities Act 207
Trafalgar Day 89
Trafford, Jeremy 119
Train Arriving at Dyke Station
75, 87
Train Entering Hove Station
88
train, Dylan 135
Tramp’s Revenge, The 103
Travelodge 64, 199
Travers, Alfred 118, 134
Travers, Linden 137, 138
Treacher, Arthur 180
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm 28
Trent, WE 42, 43
Trigon Films 118
Trilby 28, 173
Trinder, Tommy 180
Trip in ‘Brighton Queen’ 92
Trip to Southend and
Blackpool, A 102
Troxy Cinema 33, 49, 196
Tuchner, Michael 136
Tucker, Anand 119
Tudor Close Hotel 118, 193
Tufano, Brian 120, 132
Tug o’ War 93
Tulley, Grant 126
Tully, Montgomery 138
Tunberg, Karl 137
Tunley, Gareth 124
Turin shroud 52
Turner, Edward 141, 144, 157,
178, 180
Turner, Florence 180, 184
Turpin, Gerry 131
Tussaud, Louis, Waxworks 194
Twentieth Century-Fox 118,
138
Twin Track Films 132
Two Brave Little Japs 104
Two Cities Films 124, 131
Two Clowns 105
Two Grinning Yokels 94
Two Jolly Old Fellows 94
Two Little Waifs, The 105
Two Little Wooden Shoes
111, 152, 156
Two Naughty Boys 77, 109
Two Naughty Boys Sprink ling
the ‘Spoons’ 92
Two Naughty Boys Teasing
the Cobbler 92
Two Naughty Boys Up setting
the ‘Spoons’ 92
Two Old Sports at the Music
Hall, The 98
Two Old Sports, The 77, 94
Two Old Sports’ Game of
Nap, The 94
Two Old Sports’ Political
Discussion, The 94
2001: ASpace Odyssey 46
Tyrell, Florence 47
Tyson, Cathy 130
Tyson, Cllr Charles 71
UGC Cinemas 47
U-I/Quota Rentals 122
UKFilm Council 16, 47, 53
Ulff-Møller, Jens 209
Ulysses 37, 48
Uncle Algy Proves a Good
Detective 107
Uncle’s Picnic 107
Under Suspicion 136
Undercliff Walk 136
Underdown, Edward 123
Underwater! 64
Underwood, Thomas 43
Uneasy Terms 138
Ungallant Lover, The 91
Unicorn Inn 68
Union Générale Cinéma to
graphique (UGC) 47
Union Internationale des
Architectes 64
United Artists 14, 133, 135
United British Cinemas
(London) 47, 61, 190
United International Pictures
(UIP) 120, 123
Universal Studios 14, 85, 120,
134, 137
Universal Entertainments 58
University of Brighton 212
University of Sussex 57, 130,
199, 212
Unsworth, Geoffrey 127
Unusual Journey 139
Unwelcome Chaperone, The
109
Upper Beeding 127
Upper North Street 126
Upton, Judy 119
Urban Practitioners 63
Urban, Charles 13, 38, 80, 81,
82, 125, 141, 142, 144, 145,
149, 151, 157, 159, 160, 161,
163, 170, 175, 178, 179, 181182, 187, 188, 192, 193, 201,
203
Urban-Eclipse 13, 83
Urbanora House 178
US Congress 208
223
Index
US Production Code
Administration 138
Ustinov, Peter 137
Valentine, Anthony 118, 126
Valentine, Val 128, 170, 182,
208
Valentino, Rudolf 69, 152
Vallée, Jean-Marc 136
Vallence Gardens 79, 199
van Biene, Auguste 30, 59, 75,
125, 182
Van Koert, James 44, 182, 191
Vance Leigh 120
vandalism 52
Vandyke Picture Corporation
118, 173
Varasova 139
Variety Theatres Controlling
Company 158
Varndean College 120
Varndean School 176
Vaughan, Kathleen 182
Vaughan, Peter 134
Vedey, Julien 135
Vee, Bobby 55
Venice Film Festival 154
Ventnor Villas 199
Verity & Beverley 42, 55
Verity, Frank T 168
Verne, Jules 151
Vernon Layton 136
Vernon Sewell Productions
126
Versois, Odile 136
Vesuvius 80
Victor Silvester Dance Studios
69
Victoria Gardens 121, 127
Victoria Hall 10, 66, 74, 75,
149, 172, 195
Victoria Street 169
Victoria the Great 171
Victoria, Queen 52
Victorian Lady in her Boudoir
75, 88, 155
Victory Theatres 53, 158
videocassettes 16
View of the Brighton Seafront
106
Village Choir, The 94
Village Fire Brigade, The 106
Villain 136, 199
Vincent, Gene 55
Violet Melnotte Picture
Theatres 52, 169, 190
Virgin Cinemas 31, 34, 42, 47,
72
Visit to Aldershot, A 106
Visit to the Seaside, A 106,
178
Vitagraph 82, 83, 178
Vitale, Milly 119
Vitagraph Girl 180
Vitaphone 14, 54
Vitascope 27, 29, 181
Vitascope Filmed
Entertainment 135
Vitti, Monica 133
Vivaphone 54
Vogue Bingo and Social Club
at the Ace 56
Vogue Cinema 41, 56, 196
Volk, Magnus 88, 95, 113
Volk’s Electric Railway 95
Volks Railway 95, 195
Volunteers 92
Wages of Fear, The 38
Wait Till Jack Comes Home
102
Waitrose 52
Walker, HS 48
Walker, Pete 120, 123, 125,
183
Walker, Rob 123
224
Walker, Syd 183
Walking Greasy Pole 89
Walking Shadows 139
Wallace, Nellie 99, 183
Walls, Tom 55, 62
Walsh, Dermot 126, 135
Walsh, Kay 122
Walt Disney Company 164
Walter, Harriet 136
Walton, Fred 183
Walturdaw 74, 150
Wanamaker, Sam 133
Wanger, Walter 32, 69, 183
Wanted: A Husband 110
Ward, Melvyn S 46
Ward, Nelson E 129
Wardour Street, London 178
Warner Bros 14, 34, 47, 54, 159
Warner Bros/First National
127
Warner, Fred 46
Warner, Jack 127
Warren Hill Limestone Quarry
127
Warren Road 129
Warrington, Mr Justice 146
Warriors, The 44
Warsaw Concerto 149
Warwick Trading Company
51, 82, 83, 141, 151, 160,
176, 18, 187, 188, 201
Was She Justified? 112, 154
Washbourne, Mona 122
Washing the Sweep 92, 169
Water Cycle at Sea, The 90
Waterfront Café 195
Waterhouse, Alfred 60
Waterhouse, Rita 138
Waters, Martin 73, 183
Watkin, David 183
Watson & Son 82
Watson, James Clark 73
Watson, Neil 209
Watson-Wood, Peter 119
Watts, Charlie 135
Waugh, Evelyn 126
Waugh, Hillary 127
Wave Pictures 130
Waves and Spray 76, 89, 91
Waxman, Harry 121, 137
Way, Tony 124
Wayland Avenue 168
Wayne, Naunton 138
Weary Willie 89, 155
weather, English 31
Webling, Alfred Henry 188
Webster, Paul 121
Webster, Peter 196
Wedding Ceremony in a
Church 94
Weiland, Paul 134
Weingott, HH 63
Weinstein Company, The 122
Weissler, Jonathan 132
Welles, Orson 160
Wellington Films 129
Wenham, Andy 131
West, Alfred J 74
West, Anita 134
West, Con 118, 205
West, Lockwood 183
West, Walter 86, 154, 166,
180, 184, 181, 204
West Beach 199
West Orange, NJ 10
West Pier 44, 60, 74, 114, 115,
118, 120, 122, 123, 125, 129,
131, 134, 135, 136, 156, 158,
195, 198, 199
West Pier (2010) 139
West Pier (2012) 139
West Pier (animation) 139
West Pier Trust 211
West Street, Brighton 79, 144,
156, 199
West Street, Shoreham 199
West Street 136
West Street Brighton 87
Western Club snooker hall 51
Western Electric (Westrex)
14, 34, 45, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58,
61, 71
Western Road, Brighton 126,
143, 146, 199
Western Road, Hove 113, 200
Western Terrace 200
WesternEsplanade 167, 199
WestLB 63
Westward Ho the Wagons! 56
Wetherell, Virginia 120
Whaley, Eddie 184
Whaley, Samantha 127
What’s My Line? 150, 169
Wheatcroft, Adelaide 62
Wheatley, Alan 121
Wheatley, Ben 124
Where Danger Lies 70
Where Did You Get It? 94
Where There’s a Will There’s
a Way 105
Whisky versus Bullets 95
White Rock Place, Southwick
126, 200
White Rock Road 200
White, Carol 129
White, Finlay 123
White, James H 144
White, Morgan 121
Whitehall Livery Stables 64
Whitehawk 42, 133, 200, 207
Whitehawk Hill Road 121
Whitehouse, Mary 37
Whitewashing the Ceiling
110, 158, 175
Whitfield, June 122
Whither Germany? 47
Whiting, Edward G 118, 205
Whitrow, Benjamin 121
Who Is the Man? 153
Who, The 132
Who’s Cuckoo 112
Who’s Who in the Theatre
210
Who’s Who of Victorian
Cinema 210, 211
Why the Wedding Was Put
Off 106
Wibrough, George V 107
Wick Hall 134, 194
Wicked Bounder, A 105
Wicked Die Slow, The 56
Wicked Woman 71
Wig in a Box Productions 120
Wiggins & Welsh 50, 190
Wignall, Peter 135
Wilbury Villas 12, 80, 185,
198, 200
Wilby, James 126
Wilcox, Herbert 156, 166,
171, 184, 195
Wilkinson, J Brooke 175
Wilkinson, Simon 211
Wilkinson, Tom 122
Will Day Kinutilities 158, 175
Willard, Edmund 184
William Street 200
Williams, Brock 127
Williams, Cedric 125
Williams, Harcourt 121
Williams, Hugh 137
Williams, Jim 124
Williams, Johnny 135
Williams, Kenneth 122
Williams, Lia 123
Williams, Michelle 130
Williams, Paul Andrew 129
Williams, Ralph Vaughan 184
Williamson, Alan 77, 85, 97,
146, 154, 184
Williamson, Colin 77, 97, 184
Williamson, Dressler & Co
85, 185, 188
Williamson, Florence 77, 95,
184
Williamson, James 10, 11, 12,
13, 23, 29, 33, 60, 74, 76-85,
89-109, 113, 116, 125, 141,
149, 154, 155, 156, 157, 164,
166, 169, 176, 179, 184-186,
187, 188, 192, 193, 194, 195,
199, 200, 202
Williamson, Lilian 186
Williamson, Stuart 102, 186,
188
Williamson, Tom 102, 106,
186, 188
Williamson & Co 188
Williamson Film Printing
Company 188
Williamson Kinemato graph
Company 85, 185, 187, 192
Williamson’s Animated News
185
Williamson’s Popular Entertainments 60
Willis, Leon 135
Willis, Ted 137
Wilson, Ian 136
Wilson, James 124
Wilson’s Theatre 66
Wimbledon 136, 192, 194,
195, 196
Wimpy Bar 72
Winchelsea 89
Windmill, Paul 121
Window the the Sky, A 72
WindowSlaws Productions
127, 136
Windsor, Barbara 122
Wingett, Mark 132
Winn, Matt 127
Winner, Michael 123
Winning the Gloves 92
Winsor & Newton 57
Winter, Nicholas 121
Wintle, Julian 123, 129
Winton, William Edward 72,
186
Winton’s Hall 34, 72-73
wireless telephony 179
Wisdom, Norman 131
Wish You Were Here 136,
197
Withers, Googie 128, 138
Witty, John 118, 134
Wlodek, Eryk 119
Wolff, Philipp 178
Wolstenholme, W 205
Wolters, NEB 210
Woman Draped in Patter ned
Handkerchiefs 106
Woman of the Iron Bracelets,
The 111, 158
Wonderland 125
Wood, Charlie 123
Wood, Edward D 174
Wood, Joan Wentworth 170
Wood, John 133
Woodfall FIlm Productions
167
Woodman, Tom 120
Woodruff, Anthony 186
Woodstock 52
Woodvale Cemetery 129
Wooland, Norman 130
Woolf, Virginia 184
Woolley, Stephen 119, 124,
130
Workers Leaving Brighton
Railway Works 76, 89, 198
Working Title 120, 134, 136
Workman, Harold 188
Workman’s Paradise, A 100
Workman’s Paradise, The 102
World Wide Pictures 156
World, the Flesh and the Devil
The 168
Worthing, Ernest 118
Worthing Kursaal 169
Worton Hall Studios 146
Wrench, Alfred 157
Wright’s New Oxford Music
Hall 49
Wrong Arm of the Law, The
152
Wrong Chimney, The 102
Wrong Poison, The 102
Wurlitzer Hope-James Unit
Orchestra organ 60
Wuthering Heights 172
Wyatt, Frank 169
Wykeham Terrace 175, 200
Wyler, William 172
Wyndham, Simon 134
Wyndham Street 200
Wynne, Derrick 135, 186, 205
Wynne, Herbert 205
X certificates 48, 55
Xmas Greeting Film 86, 110
X-rays 27, 162
X-Rays, The 76, 89, 177
Yachting 89
Yamasaki , Itsuka 118
Yankee at the Court of King
Arthur, A 69
Yes/No Productions 136
York, Susannah 131, 197
You’re Gonna Wake Up One
Morning 139
Youens, Bernard 186
Young and Innocent 151
Young Lovers, The 136, 197
Young Scarface (Brighton
Rock) 121
Young Victoria, The 136
Young, Anthony 130, 132, 205
Young, Collier 168
Young, Sarah Louise 120
Young, Thomas 141
Zap Club 135, 195
Zenith 36
Zephyrs, The 119
Zimbalist, Sam 137
Zsigmond, Vilmos 122
Zulu 160, 163
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